Chest rachitic

Chest rachitic

The rachitic chest is a developmental anomaly of the chest organs, characterized by thinning and curvature (in the sagittal plane), due to limited growth and metaphyseal ossification of the ribs along the edges of the sternum.

_Clinical picture_

When examining the patient, thinning and deformation of the chest are determined. The patients' torso is shortened. The axes of the shoulder and pelvis do not coincide, and a pronounced deviation of the upper limbs to the side is formed. Patients have a kind of “thoracic hump” even with a significant decrease in thoracic kyphosis. With a pronounced degree of deformation of the chest,