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A Case of Traumatic Flail Chest Requiring Stabilization with Surgical Reconstruction

The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2015
Background Flail chest is the most serious complication that may occur after thoracic trauma. In this article, we present a case of flail chest caused by blunt chest trauma, which presented dramatic clinical improvement following rib fixation and chest ...
Serdar Evman, Ilker Kolbas, Talha Dogruyol, Cagatay Tezel   +3 more
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Delayed post-traumatic hemothorax [PDF]

Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care, 2012
Intrathoracic bleeding may occur following blunt chest trauma, and can be classified as minimal, moderate or massive, according to the amount of blood present. The diagnosis of hemothorax is established by clinical examination, plain chest radiograph or,
Sherwan R. Khoschnau, Mazin AM. Tuma, Kimball Maull   +2 more
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Delayed Aortic Valve Perforation Caused by Blunt Trauma

Diagnostics, 2023
Traumatic aortic regurgitation (AR) is a rare complication of blunt chest trauma. We described the case of a 35-year-old male who presented to our hospital with shortness of breath 7 years after sustaining blunt chest trauma associated with a motorcycle ...
Kazuya Tateishi, Chantal Y. Asselin, Elie M. Elmann, Joseph De Gregorio   +3 more
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Post-Traumatic Pulmonary Pseudocyst following Blunt Chest Trauma; a Case Report

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
Traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst is a rare complication of chest trauma that has been poorly documented and usually resolves without specific treatment. Here, we present a case of pulmonary pseudocyst in a child with chest trauma without obvious symptoms ...
Nasim Ghafourian, Fatemeh Mahdizadeh, Mina Zavareh, Mitra Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein Askarzadeh, Fatemeh Jalili   +5 more
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Malfunction of a Heimlich flutter valve causing tension pneumothorax: case report of a rare complication [PDF]

, 2010
Background Thoracic injuries play an important role in major trauma patients due to their high incidence and critical relevance. A serious consequence of thoracic trauma is pneumothorax, a condition that quickly can become life-threatening and requires ...
April O Paul, Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Michael V Kay, Albert Hiebl, Markus Koerner, Volker A Braunstein, Wolf Mutschler, Karl-Georg Kanz   +7 more
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Effectiveness of the STUMBL Scoring System in Predicting Outcomes of Blunt Chest Trauma Patients Admitted to the Trauma ICU: A Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Introduction: Blunt chest trauma is one of the leading causes of trauma related admission to the Emergency Department (ED). Risk prediction tools are widely used to estimate patient outcomes and guide clinical decision making.
Vijayavani Palani, George Prashanth KurIan, Shona Rachel Mathuram   +2 more
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MODERN ASPECTS OF DIAGNOSTICS AND TACTICS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT IN COMPLICATED TRAUMA OF THE CHEST

Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta, 2019
Background. Closed chest trauma is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening critical conditions. Medicosocial topicality of the problem is associated with its high frequency, large number of complications (45.6% - 75%) and high mortality rate (2% -
Sushko A. A., Kul S. A., Mozhejko M. A., Mahiliavets E. V., Olejnik A. O., Gavron I. V., Dosko D. V.   +6 more
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Delayed cardiac tamponade following blunt chest trauma due to disruption of fourth costal cartilage with posterior dislocation

Trauma Case Reports, 2020
Cardiac tamponade is a recognised sequelae of non-penetrating and penetrating chest trauma. Delayed cardiac tamponade has been described following blunt chest trauma.
S. Mohamed, A. Osman, A. Patel, K. Mazhar, L. Srinivasan, L. Balacumaraswami   +5 more
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Paediatric radiology seen from Africa. Part I: providing diagnostic imaging to a young population [PDF]

, 2011
Article approval pendingPaediatric radiology requires dedicated equipment, specific precautions related to ionising radiation, and specialist knowledge. Developing countries face difficulties in providing adequate imaging services for children.
A Brandt, AA Malkin, B Zanoni, Bryan Khoury, D Stuckler, EA Krupinski, GC Patton, GP Hanson, HJ Zar, I Cowan, Ian Cowan, J Brederhofs, J Bryce, JM Kitonyi, JR Williams, K McHugh, Kieran McHugh, LV Adams, M Price, M Strachan, Mignon McCulloch, Nathan Ford, Nuraan Abdurahman, P Corr, P Sullivan, PD Rudd, PD Simpson, PES Palmer, R Wootton, S Andronikou, Savvas Andronikou, TM Ng’ambi, Victor Mngomezulu, William E. Brant   +33 more
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OPTIMIZATION OF INDICATIONS FOR THORACOSCOPY IN CHEST TRAUMA

Наука и инновации в медицине, 2017
Background. The terms for application of video-assisted endosurgical interventions appear rather often in the surgery of chest trauma. There is a certain need for clear selection and differentiation of indications and contraindications for performing ...
EA A Korymasov, AS Benyan
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