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Chest clinic
Images in thorax
Leonardo da Vinci and the first portrayal of pectus excavatum
  1. Hutan Ashrafian
  1. Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Hutan Ashrafian, The Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, 10th Floor QEQM-Building, Praed Street, London W2 1NY, UK; h.ashrafian{at}imperial.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203224

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    Studying one of Leonardo da Vinci's images from 1510, I note for the first time that there is an image of pectus excavatum (figure 1) in an …

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