Spontaneous flail chest.

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 09 Mar 1972 English Publisher:Health and Medical Publishing GroupJournal:South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, volume 45 (issn: 0256-9574,

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Authors: Kanarek, D.J.; Zwi, S.;

pmid: 5133225

Spontaneous flail chest.

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Abstract

The flail chest syndrome usually occurs in association with severe, obvious injury. Two cases are described in which there was no trauma but in which the causative factors were pathological weakening of the thoracic cage due respectively to multiple myeloma and to chronic renal osteodystrophy associated with steroid therapy.

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Department of Medicine
Italy

Keywords

Adult, Male, Ribs, Middle Aged, Fractures, Spontaneous, Thoracic Diseases, Renal Dialysis, Humans, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Osteoporosis, Female, Multiple Myeloma, Uremia

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