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Spontaneous flail chest


D.J. Kanarek
S. Zwi

Abstract

The flail chest syndrome usually occurs in association with severe, obvious injury. Two  cases are described in which there was no trauma but in which the causative factors were pathological weakening of the thoracic cage due respectively to multiple myeloma  and to chronic renal osteodystrophy associated with steroid therapy.

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eISSN: 2078-5135
print ISSN: 0256-9574