Musculoskeletal tuberculosis accounts for 1-2% of all types of tuberculosis. Tubercular abscess of the chest wall accounts for 1-5% of all cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis. Herein, we report a case of tubercular abscess of the chest wall. The occurrence of caries rib and cold abscess of the chest wall with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis, and tubercular lympha-denitis of neck and medias...

BACKGROUND Traumatic flail chest injury is a potentially life threatening condition traditionally treated with invasive mechanical ventilation to splint the chest wall. Longer-term sequelae of pain, deformity, and physical restriction are well described. This study investigated the impact of operative fixation in these patients. STUDY DESIGN A prospective randomized study compared operative f...

Static total and lung compliance measurements were made in five healthy term-pregnant women immediately before and after vaginal delivery using a super-syringe and oesophageal balloon. Chest wall compliance was calculated from the formula of Comroe and associates (1962). The influence of supine recumbent v. lithotomy position was also evaluated and compared to five non-pregnant women. Following...

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of TomoDirect (TD) plans compared to conventional TomoHelical (TH) plans in chest wall irradiation in patients with breast cancer. Materials and Methods: TD and TH plans for only chest wall were retrospectively created for 30 patients previously treated with TH technique in our clinic. The beam angles were arranged to cov...

Static total and lung compliance measurements were made in five healthy term-pregnant women immediately before and after vaginal delivery using a super-syringe and oesophageal balloon. Chest wall compliance was calculated from the formula of Comroe and associates (1962). The influence of supine recumbent v. lithotomy position was also evaluated and compared to five non-pregnant women. Following...

The upper chest wall does not grow properly in children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) with paradoxical breathing. This suggests that long-term inability to take a deep breath in developing children may result in underdevelopment of the upper chest wall. In addition, a rapid and paradoxical breathing pattern is frequently observed in children with severe cerebral palsy (CP), which often cor...

The relationship between epicardial and transmural function (measured with sonomicrometers) was examined in 13 anesthetized open-chest dogs. Systolic wall thickening was used as a standard of integrated transmural function to compare with epicardial function measured as segment shortening parallel to surface fibers. Three levels of coronary inflow restriction were produced by using decrements i...

CONTEXT Chest wall mobility is strongly related to respiratory function; however, the effect of aging on chest wall mobility-and the level at which this mobility is most affected-remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To investigate age-related differences in chest wall mobility and respiratory function among elderly women in different age groups. METHODS This cross-sectional observational study was pe...