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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Traumatic Multiple Fractures of the Thorax by Multislice Computed Tomography

^a Department of Chest Surgery, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
^b Department of Surgery, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Osaki, Department of Chest Surgery, Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Center, 2-1-1 Bashaku, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, 802-0077, Japan (Email: tyymm-osaki@hig.bbig.jp).

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The chest of a 50-year-old man was accidentally injured at work by a falling 6-m iron pole. He complained of debilitating chest pain and dyspnea. There was a paradoxical chest wall motion with an excavation in the distal portion of the sternum, resulting in ineffective ventilation. A chest roentgenogram and computed tomographic scan showed bilateral lung collapse and pleural effusion with multiple rib fractures. He was diagnosed with bilateral traumatic . . . [Full Text of this Article]