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Thoracic wall injuries: Ribs, sternal and scapular fractures, and hemothoraces and pneumothoraces
While many thoracic injuries are potentially lethal, most patients will survive. The earliest description of surviving blunt and penetrating chest trauma are Neanderthal skeletons showing evidence of a healed penetrating trauma and blunt rib fractures. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, written…