Pectus excavatum in relief from Ancient Egypt (dating back to circa 2400 BC) [1]
The authors analysed 621 reliefs, sculptures and paintings from Ancient Egypt looking for anatomical defects of the chest. They found a relief dated back to 2400 BC, depicting a man with an abnormal shape of the chest similar to a pectus excavatum. The authors opened the debate on the occurrence of this deformity in ancient times.
Source name:
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg
Resource link:
Subspecialty(ies):
Thoracic [5]
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:
History [6]