Kami-Ube Pediatric Clinic: 2010/11

Funnel chest(hollowed chest)

Funnel chest (hollowed chest)

Pectus excavatum (hollowed chest)is the most common congenital deformity of
the anterior wall of the chest.

The Nuss procedure is a minimally-invasive procedure, invented by Dr. Donald
Nuss (Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, in Norfolk, Virginia) for
treating pectus excavatum.

A concave stainless steel bar is slipped under the sternum, through the incisions
in the side of the chest. The bar is then flipped, and the sternum pops out.

To support the bar and keep it in place a metal plate called a stabilizer may be
inserted with the bar on one side of the torso.

After a period of two to four years, the surgical stainless steel bar is removed
from the patient's chest.

Any Questions: write to
Keiji Hagiwara, MD
Kami-Ube Pediatric Clinic,
e-mail: keijihagiwara@gmail.com

Brugge, Belgium

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Brugge is located in the northwest of Belgium. It is worth to visit.

Many medieval buildings and old canals are well preserved.

Brussels(Bruxelles)

A metro(subway) station of Brussels

A view of central Brussels, photo taken in 1985.

European Commission, Brussels

Cinquantenaire, Brussels

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Clos Chapelle aux Champs, Bruxelles

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Avenue Emile Vandervelde, Bruxelles

Clos Chapelle aux Champs

The apartment where we lived.

Any Questions: write to

Keiji Hagiwara, MD

Kami-Ube Pediatric Clinic,

e-mail: keijihagiwara@gmail.com

Université catholique de Louvain

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The Catholic University of Leuven, or Louvain, is the largest, oldest university in Belgium.
The university was founded in 1425. In 1968, the university split to two :

1) Dutch-speaking " Katholieke Universiteit Leuven", located in Leuven
2) French-speaking "Université catholique de Louvain", situated in Louvain-la-Neuve
and Brussels.
Attention: If you arrive in the Brussels International airport(Zaventem airport) and ask the
taxi driver to go to Louvain university, He may be go to Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in
Leuven.

From 1985 to 87, I studied at the medical research institute of Université catholique de Louvain in Brussels( de Duve Institute, ICP 75.50 Avenue Hippocrate 75, B-1200 Brussels).