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The surgical stabilization of multiple rib fractures using titanium elastic nail in blunt chest trauma with acute respiratory failure

BACKGROUND: Blunt chest injuries are usually combined with multiple rib fractures and severe lung contusions. This can occasionally induce acute respiratory failure and prolong ventilations. In order to reduce the periods of ventilator dependency, we propose a less invasive method of fixing multiple...

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Autores principales: Tarng, Yih-Wen, Liu, Yuan-Yuarn, Huang, Fong-Dee, Lin, Hsing-Lin, Wu, Tzu-Chin, Chou, Yi-Pin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25875089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00464-015-4207-9