[Association of cardiac and sternal malformations]

Authors has studied association between cardiac and sternal anomalies, in a series of 2,000 cases of congenital heart disease. He finds an incidence of pectus excavatum of 2.5% and pectus carinatum of 3%. Associative differences were highlysignificant, mainly that between Fallot tetralogy and pectus carinatum. Possible mechanisms responsible for those associations are discussed.