Posterior approach. ... there may be chest wall instability or a flail chest.These injuries are a result of high energy trauma and have high rates of morbidity and mortality.

The mass was also firmly fixed to the chest wall in the posterior apical region. The lung root was evaluated, and it was possible to dissect out the vessels in spite of shortening due to tumor ...

A 72-year-old woman with a history of hypertension presented with progressive swelling of the right posterior chest wall that had been present for two days following a diagnostic thoracentesis. She ...

Pectoralis minor - a muscle in the anterior chest wall that is overlaid by the pectoralis major. Coracobrachialis – one of the 3 muscles in the anterior aspect of the arm, that helps to flex the ...

A 3608 g infant was born at 38 weeks gestation to a gravida 2, para 0 mother. The neonate had apgars of 9 at 1 and 5 min. A 3 × 3 cm posterior firm mass was present over the upper left chest.

In the case at the center of the new report, a 48-year-old male patient who had no history of chronic illness arrived in the emergency department reporting posterior chest wall pain and swelling ...

Methods: In the initial phase, an 89-marker protocol will be validated against a 3D-printed chest wall model that can produced simulate of normal and abnormal motions. Retroreflective markers will be ...