Citation

Qureshi T, Mander BJ, Wishart GC. Injury 1998; 29(5): 397-398.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9813690

Abstract

Fractures of the first rib are extremely rare and are more commonly associated with either multiple rib fractures or life-threatening injuries. First rib fractures are commonly caused by direct trauma, violent muscular contraction or by chronic stress. We present a case of isolated bilateral rib fracture in an elderly patient, in the absence of multiple trauma, where the mechanism of injury appears to be a whiplash injury.

Language: en