Stove-in chest
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A stove-in chest is a rare and complex type of flail chest injury where the flail segment collapses into the chest. It is usually due to severe blunt trauma to the chest wall and is rarely encountered in imaging and emergency medicine due to the high mortality at the scene. It may evolve over days or weeks from a traumatic flail chest.
A case report in 2004 has described the development of a stove-in chest in a patient with a flail chest injury after insertion of an intercostal catheter for management of a pneumothorax which reversed with ventilatory support 1.
Radiographic features
Chest radiography and CT will show multiple rib fractures and a flail segment with internal displacement of the ribs reducing the volume of the lung.
As with flail chest, stove-in chest is almost always associated with other thoracic injuries including:
Treatment and prognosis
There is significant controversy in the optimum management of trauma patients with flail chest, ranging from conservative to surgical rib fixation. The overall goals are adequate pain relief, optimization of gas exchange (pneumatic stabilization with positive airway pressure and/or ventilation) and the prevention of secondary sepsis 1,2.
It has a very high mortality.
History and etymology
Stove is the past participle of stave, which means to break something inwards with force.
-</ul><h4>Treatment and prognosis</h4><p>There is significant controversy in the optimum management of trauma patients with flail chest, ranging from conservative to surgical rib fixation. The overall goals are adequate pain relief, optimization of gas exchange (pneumatic stabilization with positive airway pressure and/or ventilation) and the prevention of secondary sepsis <sup>1,2</sup>.</p><p>It has a very high mortality.</p>- +</ul><h4>Treatment and prognosis</h4><p>There is significant controversy in the optimum management of trauma patients with flail chest, ranging from conservative to surgical rib fixation. The overall goals are adequate pain relief, optimization of gas exchange (pneumatic stabilization with positive airway pressure and/or ventilation) and the prevention of secondary sepsis <sup>1,2</sup>.</p><p>It has a very high mortality.</p><h4>History and etymology</h4><p>Stove is the past participle of stave, which means to break something inwards with force.</p>
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