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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

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005409

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