Dr Denis Debrosse
Service de chirurgie thoracique
Hôpital Tenon (AP-HP)
4 rue de la Chine - 75020 Paris 01 56 01 78 17
Dr Debrosse is a thoracic and pulmonary surgeon with more than 20 years of experience, practicing at the Tenon hospital in Paris and formerly at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris. He has also been a volunteer for the Franco-Vietnamese Association of Pulmonology. Since 2017, he has been, along with Pr Jalal Assouad (in the thoracic department of Tenon hospital), one of the surgeons who have operated the most Pectus Excavatum with 3D custom-made implants in France and Europe.
Clinical Scenario He is a 28-year-old man who came to my consultation for a chest deformity problem with a sagging aspect on the right side. This deformation is congenital, but has worsened over time since childhood. The diagnosis of pectus excavatum is worn, it is a pectus type 3…...Read more
The advantage of the 3D implants is above all its simplicity compared to the procedures I used to practice, I mean orthopedic techniques such as Nuss or Ravitch. It is a really a minimally invasive surgery, where we do not touch the bones at all. That is why it is causing much less pain after the surgery. The definitive result is quite immediate, as the implant, designed from the CT scan of the patient, perfectly fills the hole.