Recently, a 19-year-old young man, Xiao Tao, did a corrective surgery for chicken chest in the hospital cardiothoracic surgery, finally got rid of the chicken chest that has plagued him for more than ten years, and can straighten his chest like a normal person. It is reported that this is the first case of successful implementation of corrective surgery of chicken chest. Before the treatment, Xiao Tao’s chest forward abnormal protrusion, as if the chest buckled a bowl, accompanied by chest tightness, shortness of breath, lower limb weakness symptoms. mid-July, Xiao Tao’s family brought him to the hospital, cardiothoracic surgeons for careful examination found that the chicken chest has led to Xiao Tao appeared obvious respiratory and circulatory function damage, if not timely surgery to correct, chicken chest may cause more serious consequences. After consultation and discussion, the doctors decided to perform sternal subsidence surgery on Xiaotao, removing the sternum that revealed the deformity and the overgrown rib cartilage on both sides to make the sternum flat. The corrective surgery was very successful. Xiao Tao’s surgeon Chu She Lu introduced: “The day after surgery, Xiao Tao has been able to straighten his chest like a normal person. After two to three months of recuperation, Xiaotao will live the same life as a healthy person.” Patients with chicken chest will have symptoms of chest tightness, shortness of breath and weakness of both lower limbs due to the increased anterior and posterior diameter of the chest, smaller volume, restricted lung development, reduced elasticity of lung tissue and respiratory amplitude, resulting in reduced exercise endurance and resistance, and even affecting cardiopulmonary function in severe cases. Experts remind, generally mild chicken chest will gradually disappear with physical growth, strengthen exercise, such as often do chest expansion, push-ups and head lifting and other exercises, can accelerate the correction of the thoracic deformity; if the chicken chest is serious and affects the respiratory circulation, then you need to undergo surgery.