Costal cartilage fracture: A commonly missed thoracic injury in trauma patients [PDF]
Radiology Case Reports, 2022 In this report, we describe a case of a 43-year-old male who sustained a displaced mid chondral costal cartilage fracture along with multiple ipsilateral rib fractures following a jet ski collision.
Moussa Meteb, MD +3 more
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Trauma Case Reports, 2023 A 49-year-old female sustained a trimalleolar fracture concurrent with 10 years history of symptomatic osteochondral lesions of the talus. We performed a costal cartilage grafting for osteochondral lesions of the talus through the inherent medial ...
MuTian Leung +2 more
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Lost fractures: prevalence and risk factors for missed costosternal and costal cartilage fractures among patients with radiologic chest wall injury [PDF]
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care OpenBackground Costosternal cartilages and the costal margin, collectively termed costal cartilage, are hyaline cartilage connecting ribs to the sternum and to adjacent ribs, respectively.
Tracy J Johns +20 more
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Bilateral costal cartilage fractures sustained in the gym during repeated bench press exercises
Trauma Case Reports, 2022 Costal cartilage fractures are common in high-energy blunt chest trauma but are frequently missed on imaging evaluation and accordingly underreported in the literature.
Yattheesh Thanalingam +2 more
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Costal cartilage fracture in blunt thoracic trauma: missed diagnosis with unclear clinical impact [PDF]
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care OpenRyan Deci, C Caleb Butts
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The Value of 99mTc-Methylene Diphosphonate Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography in Detecting Atraumatic Costal Cartilage Fracture in Malignant Tumor Patients [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 Objectives: To assess the clinical significance and single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) features of atraumatic costal cartilage fracture (CCF) in patients with malignant tumors.Methods: This was a retrospective ...
Wei Li, Linqi Zhang, Wen Li, Rusen Zhang
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Surgical treatment of costal cartilage fractures with titanium plate internal fixation [PDF]
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022 Background This study aim to evaluate surgical procedures for titanium plate internal fixation of costal cartilage fractures with displacement or nonunion.
Yang Li +5 more
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One case report: Surgical treatment of a flail chest caused by a wedge-shaped avulsion fracture of manubrium sterni [PDF]
Trauma Case ReportsObjective: The surgical treatment experience of one case of sternal manubrium wedge-shaped avulsion fracture combined with multiple costal cartilage fractures resulting in anterior flail chest is summarized.
Song Xuantong +4 more
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Breaking waves and cartilage: Surgical management of costal cartilage injuries in surfing-related trauma [PDF]
Trauma Case ReportsBlunt thoracic trauma, often leading to rib fractures and costal cartilage injuries, is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in trauma patients.
Samy Bendjemil, Joseph D. Forrester
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Fracture of the Costal Cartilage: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Management [PDF]
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2019 A 52-year-old woman sustained a fracture of the left 7th costal cartilage after a ski injury. She presented complaining of painful clicking over the area. Initial imaging studies were negative for fracture; however, 3-dimensional reconstruction of a chest computed tomography scan, formatted to costal cartilage, revealed the fracture.
Thomas W White, Fredric M Pieracci
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