Auscultation and percussion : together with the other methods of physical examination of the chest.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1908
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    seem to be the same in both cases, although the results differ. But obstruction to inspiration was pronounced to be the cause of the transversely constricted chest. And so a pigeon breast is mostly accompanied by a well-marked transverse sulcus: as a part of which transverse constriction, the xiphoid cartilage becomes bent back so as to form a more or less sharp angle at the bottom of the sternum ; a condition which increases the similarity to a pigeon's breast. The transverse furrow, I say, is well marked; in fact, very often there is a depression of the whole anterior half of the thorax below the xiphoid level; in which case, the straightening of the false ribs, in front of the angles, is carried to an extreme degree. The costal cartilages of a pigeon breast are often more prominent on the right side than on the left; a con- dition sometimes connected with more or less scoliosis in the dorsal vertebrae; sometimes dependent upon the fact that where on the right side is lung, free to dilate, there, on the left side, lies the heart. V. The Rickety Chest.—Rickets, on account of the part which it takes in the generation of the trans- versely constricted and of the pigeon chest, has already been alluded to more than once: it remains to show how rickets alone may produce deformity of the chest. a. A.
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