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Teaching Case
SectionChest imaging
Case TypeClinical Cases
AuthorsM. Wintermark, P. Vock, P. Schnyder
Connected authors
71 years, female
Anterior paradoxical chest wall motion as part of a high-speed car accident
Blunt traumatic anterior flail chest
Belted 71-year-old female driver involved in a high-speed car crash and with an anterior paradoxical chest wall motion as part of her clinical presentation
Flail chests usually affect one single hemithorax, but may exceptionally involve both hemithoraces when sternal and/or bilateral anterior chondro-costal fractures result in a complete disruption of the anterior thoracic wall
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The costal hook: an indicator of occult flail segment in chest trauma.
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Wintermark M, Schnyder P
Trauma of the chest wall. In Schnyder P, Wintermark M. Radiology of blunt trauma of the chest. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 9-27(2000).
Case information
| URL: | https://www.eurorad.org/case/545 |
| DOI: | 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.545 |
| ISSN: | 1563-4086 |
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