Concept information
Preferred term
Flail Chest
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Chest, Stove-in
- Stove in Chest
- Stove-in Chest
Scope note
- A complication of multiple RIB FRACTURES; RIB and STERNUM fractures, or thoracic surgery. A portion of the THORACIC WALL becomes isolated from the RIB CAGE and exhibits paradoxical respiration.
History note
- 91(80); was see under THORACIC INJURIES 1980-90
In other languages
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Finnish
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flail chest
-
pectus flaccidum
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rentorinta
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varstarinta
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005409
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