A man with a painful sternum
Dekkers, M.; Brouwers, L.; Rutten, A.M.F.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 159: A9039
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1876-8784 PMID: 26374724 Document Number: 681083
We present a case of a 81-year-old man with blunt chest trauma after a car accident. Trauma screening at the emergency department showed multiple rib fractures and a fractured sternum. We made the diagnosis floating sternum. Cardiac contusion may occur after chest-wall trauma, but was not present in this case.