Although the Nuss Procedure is performed around the world, CHKD has emerged as the world's primary site of surgical training, research and treatment of pectus excavatum and a related condition called ...

Dustin Lurvey is feeling pretty good for a guy with a steel bar inside him, pushing out his ribcage. Before he had the bar surgically inserted a month ago, Lurvey lived 38 years with a dent in the ...

Surgeons have fitted a patient with a device that might eliminate the need for surgery in some patients with one of the world's most common chest deformities, pectus excavatum, often called sunken ...

NORFOLK -- Operation Smile helped a six-year-old girl from Mexico receive a Nuss Procedure at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters for her sunken chest Monday. The procedure to correct pectus ...

Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of ...

NORFOLK, VA -- Surgeons at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) have fitted a patient with a device that might eliminate the need for surgery in some patients with one of the world's ...