TY - JOUR T1 - Congenital absence of sternum in an infant JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2016-219081 VL - 2017 SP - bcr2016219081 AU - Anubha Shrivastava AU - Shahid Akhtar Siddiqui Y1 - 2017/02/07 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-219081.abstract N2 - A female baby aged 6 months, born to non-consanguineous parents presented with anterior chest wall deformity since birth. On examination, an absent palpable sternum along with paradoxical respiratory movements with visible cardiac contractions and vasculature were seen beneath a thin layer of skin which led to the diagnosis of congenital absence of the sternum (figure 1 and video 1). The rest of the examination was found to be normal with no other obvious … ER -