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Chest clinic
Images in thorax
Leonardo da Vinci and the first portrayal of pectus excavatum
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  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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