BACKGROUND Traumatic rib fractures can cause chest complications that need further treatment and hospitalization. We hypothesized that an increase in the number of displaced rib fractures will be accompanied by an increase in chest complications. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the trauma registry between January 2013 and May 2015 in a teaching hospital in northeastern Taiwan. Patients ad...

Rib fracture can occur from cough in presence of osteoporosis, malignancy or renal disease. In absence these risk factors, it is very rare to happen and we found only few case reports where rib due happened without any factors. Our patient had persistent forceful secondary probable aspiration foreign body leading fracture. Such cases should always be reviewed thoroughly evaluate treat potential...

Predicting rib fractures remains an important challenge for the automotive safety community. While current rib computational models can successfully be used to determine the load and deflection required to cause rib fracture, they fail to properly predict the fracture location. It is assumed that a better understanding of bone fracture mechanism will help to improve the biofidelity of rib compu...

To address the epidemiology of rib fractures, an age- and sex-stratified random sample of 699 Rochester, Minnesota, adults age 21-93 years was followed in a long-term prospective study. Bone mineral density (BMD) was assessed at baseline, and fractures were ascertained by periodic interview and medical record review. During 8560 person-years of followup (median, 13.9 years), 56 subjects experie...

This fracture has been variously reported as a developmental anomaly, a synchondrosis or a pseudarthrosis, but most authors now regard it as a true fracture. As far as can be ascertained, only 263 cases of isolated fracture of the first rib have been recorded in the literature and only seventeen of these were bilateral. The majority of the recorded cases have been found incidentally during rout...