Early Operative Stabilization for Multiple Rib Fractures Causing Flail Chest in an Elderly Patient
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Surgical treatment of flail chest and rib fractures.
Despite significant advances in critical care management, flail chest remains a clinically significant finding, with a mortality rate of up to 33%. Nonsurgical management is associated with prolonged ventilator support, pneumonia, respiratory difficulties, and lengthy stays in the intensive care unit, as well as chronic pain from nonunion and malunion of the bony thorax. Treatment with aggressi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Rinsho Geka Gakkai Zasshi (Journal of Japan Surgical Association)
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1345-2843,1882-5133
DOI: 10.3919/jjsa.76.488