Table 1.

Index of improvement (II) for treatment by the dynamic method of chest remodeling (DR method) in children and adolescents. Distribution of 1,632 patients who returned for reassessment of treatment according to the type of deformity. The number of patients and II obtained for each type of deformity are expressed by the smaller numbers, and their percentage by larger numbers in bold. Patients with II 3 and II 2 (totals in bold) comprised 60.6% of cases.

Index of improvement 454 LPC 781 IPC		69 SPC	178 LPE	150 SPE	1632 Total
II 3	142 31.3% 388 49.7%	5 7.3%	11 6.2%	2 1.3%	548 33.6%
II 2	139 30.6% 216 27.7%	15 21.7%	40 22.5%	30 20.0%	440 27.0%
II 1	87 19.2% 89 11.4%	29 42.0%	82 46.0%	79 52.7%	366 22.4%
II 0	86 18.9% 88 11.2%	20 29.0%	45 25.3%	39 26.0%	278 17.0%