3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING OF POLAND-SYNDROME

Poland’s syndrome is a congenital absence of the pectoralis major muscle with ipsilateral upper extremity deformity.1, 2 There is a variable degree of hypoplasia of the breast, subcutaneous tissue, muscles, and ribs and syndactyly. The precise extent of the deformity cannot be determined by physical examination and routine chest x-ray. For preoperative planning, a high-resolution CT scan with three-dimensional re-formation was done in a 14-year-old girl with severe Poland’s syndrome. A postoperative MRI with three-dimensional re-formation docu-mented the relative contribution of the implants to the reconstruction. © 1994 American Society of Plastic Surgeons.