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[Surgical management of multiple rib fractures: a case report of rib stapler]
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Niigata University School of Medicine.
Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 66-year-old woman with multiple rib fractures was successfully treated with the use of Rib Staplers (Judet's struts made of titanium). Rib Staplers are effective for the stabilization of fractured ribs even if fracture lines are oblique.