The floating flail chest: Acute management of an injury combination of the floating shoulder and flail chest

Background/purpose: The combination of ipsilateral floating shoulder and flail chest is a unique injury pattern that has not been previously described in the literature. We termed the injury pattern floating flail chest (FFC). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of operative treatme...

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Main Authors: Brian P Cunningham, Liam Bosch, David Swanson, Ryan McLemore, Anthony S Rhorer, Harsh R Parikh, Melissa Albersheim, Gilbert Ortega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2210491719899076