Prevelance of the costal cartilage fracture on the computerised tomography in chest trauma
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2020 Introduction: Radiography remains limited in costal cartilage injuries, and sonography, CT and MR imaging turns out to be more sensitive in the detection of cartilage injuries.
Çakmak, Vefa, Özen, Mert
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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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Costal cartilage fractures as revealed on CT and sonography.
American Journal of Roentgenology, 2001 OBJECTIVE: We describe the CT and sonographic appearance of 15 costal cartilage fractures observed in eight patients. CONCLUSION: On CT, fracture was seen as a low-density area through the costal cartilage, with surrounding calcifications present near ...
Maldague, Baudouin +3 more
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Rib Fixation for a Patient with Severely Displaced and Overlapped Costal Cartilage Fractures [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2018 Rib fixations for flail chest or displaced rib fractures are not a new technique. However, reports on rib fixations involving costal cartilage fractures are very few and surprisingly there are no reports of internal fixations involving only the costal ...
Sung Ho Han +7 more
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Concentrations of volatile substances in costal cartilage in relation to blood and urine – preliminary studies [PDF]
, 2021 Aim: The study aimed to examine whether volatile substances (ethanol, isopropanol, and acetone) can be detected in costal cartilage and also if concentrations of detected substances reliably reflect their concentrations in the peripheral blood – the ...
Marcin Tomsia +14 more
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Diagnostics, 2022 Blunt high-energy chest trauma is often associated with thoracic and abdominal organ injuries. Literature for a hyperextension-distraction mechanism resulting in a costal arch fracture combined with a thoracic spine fracture is sparse. A 65-year-old male
Stefan Schulz-Drost +4 more
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Comparison of Autogenic Costal Cartilage with Chitosan Scaffold in Canine Humeral Defect Healing [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 2017 Objective- Current trends emphasize the acceleration of fracture healing on the ground that in doing so, the limitation of mobility and complications associated with recovery period are reduced.
Siavash Sharifi +4 more
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Case report-Vascular injury in association with posteriorly displaced medial clavicle fracture
Trauma Case Reports, 2021 The primary stabiliser of the diarthrodial sterno-clavicular (SC) joint is the costo-clavicular ligament, this holds the clavicle to the first costal cartilage and the end of the first rib. The costo-clavicular and surrounding ligaments help maintain the
Husam Khalil +2 more
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Fracture of the Costal Cartilage: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Management [PDF]
The 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.
Grace E, Sollender +2 more
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Large Focal Extrapleural Hematoma of Chest Wall: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2019 Although hemothorax and pneumothorax are common complications seen in rib fractures, focal extrapleural hematoma is quite rare. We report a 63-year-old female patient that developed large focal extrapleural hematoma after falling off a second floor ...
Hohyoung Lee +7 more
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