Severe Infantile Cholestasis as a Cause of Silent Rib Fractures
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Despite biliary drainage, she had significant cholestasis, ascites, malnutrition, and transient melena. Subsequently she was evaluated for a liver transplantation. A chest X-ray and an abdominal CT scan were obtained with an incidental finding of healing right sixth and seventh lateral rib fractures with callus formation and healing left seventh lateral rib fracture with callus formation (Figures 3 and 4).
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