Buckle rib fracture
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Buckle rib fractures are typical of an anterior compressive force to the chest, most commonly external cardiac massage, but can be seen following any such traumatic injury. They are similar in appearance to buckle
Pathology
Buck rib fractures elsewhere, but have important implications in forensic radiology.
They occur in all ages, even very elderly patients. Thus ribs are not the same as most adult long bones that tend to break like pencils on the tensile side when exposed to an extreme force.
Buckle fractures are usually seen in the middle ribs (anterior 1/3one-third) and in a line. TheThe anterior force responsible for the rib injury may also cause a similar sternal fracture.
Radiographic appearance
Buckle rib fractures are similar in appearance to the sternumbuckle fractures elsewhere, but have important implications in forensic radiology.
Etymology
Buckle is an engineering term to mean cortical disruption to the compressive (inner) side of a structure (in this case the rib) and maintenance of the tensile (outer) side cortex.
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