The results showed 14 articles involving 81 individuals, where emergency physicians performed SAPBs for 5 indications: rib fracture, tube thoracostomy, acute herpes zoster, chest wall burns, and ...

A 14-year-old Tongan girl presented with a 6-month history of anterior chest wall cellulitis and fistula formation.

SAN ANTONIO -- Postmastectomy chest-wall irradiation (CWI) for intermediate-risk breast cancer had no impact on long-term survival, results of a large British study showed. After a median follow ...

Patients with intermediate-risk breast cancer had similar rates of 10-year overall survival whether or not they underwent chest wall irradiation (CWI) after mastectomy, according to results from ...

Just how rare is it, exactly? According to the National Institutes of Health, the incidence rate is one case per 100,000 live births, and represents less than 1% of all chest wall deformities.

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The chest wall remained firm and the scar nontender. There was negligible paradoxical motion, the excursions in the central portion of the defect being less than 0.5 cm. between full inspiration ...

Anterior chest wall deformity was evaluated with chest topography, and scar quality at baseline and at 6-months follow-up, and final outcomes analyzed with SPSS. Results: In 70 patients, 52 (74%) were ...

The high school junior from Hinton, Iowa, has an older brother and two younger sisters — but neither his siblings nor parents had the deformity. "Everyone I knew had a normal chest," he says.