Pectus Excavatum Camouflage

A small incision is made in the chest and pre-sternal pocked is defined. Following this, an empty scaffold is implanted at the site of the defect with skin closed directly over it. At the same stage, autologous fat transfer will be performed, harvesting fat from available donor sites such as the thighs and abdomen - depending on scaffold volume and patient morphology. The area will be infiltrated with local anaesthetic tumescent fluid, liposuction performed, and fat transferred to syringes for filtration prior to injection into the scaffold. Fat will not be processed beyond simple filtration to separate liquid from fat to be injected. The scaffold provides structural stability to the chest during the infiltration of the tissue inside the scaffold.