flail chest
Sign in to savelife-threatening medical condition that occurs when a segment of the rib cage breaks due to trauma and becomes detached from the rest of the chest wall
Research
1,315 papers- Flail Chest.The New England journal of medicine · 2024
- Surgical Rib Fixation of Multiple Rib Fractures and Flail Chest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.The Journal of surgical research · 2022
- Flail chest injury-changing management and outcomes.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023
- Chest Wall Trauma.Thoracic surgery clinics · 2017
- The management of flail chest.Thoracic surgery clinics · 2007
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bone fracture
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- health specialty
- emergency medicine
- Commons category
- Flail chest
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0030207
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