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Traumatic rib fractures: a marker of severe injury. A nationwide study using the National Trauma Data Bank

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  • Jesse Peek Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Orthopedic Trauma Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yassine Ochen Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Orthopedic Trauma Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Noelle Saillant Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Orthopedic Trauma Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rolf H H Groenwold Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Loek P H Leenen Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • R Marijn Houwert Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marilyn Heng Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Orthopedic Trauma Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Marilyn Heng; mheng{at}mgh.harvard.edu
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Peek J, Ochen Y, Saillant N, et al
Traumatic rib fractures: a marker of severe injury. A nationwide study using the National Trauma Data Bank
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 2020;5:e000441. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000441

Publication history

  • Received January 15, 2020
  • Revised May 4, 2020
  • Accepted May 15, 2020
  • First published June 10, 2020.
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January 08, 2022

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