One of the more alarming may be pain in your chest and ribs. While chest pain sometimes indicates heart disease, it may also ...

Ribs can also be bruised (bone bruise) without a fracture. The sternum is infrequently fractured, but chest trauma can result in a number of abnormalities ranging from single fractures to flail ...

OBJECTIVE: Fractured ribs and sternum are frequent complications of thoracic compression during CPR in adults. This study was conducted to determine whether findings of plain chest radiography ...

This occurs when the cartilage that connects the ribs to the sternum or to each other becomes weak or damaged, allowing the ribs to move or slip out of their normal position and push on the nerve.

On the left side of the body, these organs include the: Costochondritis is inflammation of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the breastbone. A person may feel pain in the chest that worsens ...

Removal of ribs – usually one rib above and one below the tumor and possibly the sternum – may be needed depending on the size and location of the tumor. A small drain or chest tube is placed into the ...

AN ELDERLY mum who lived with her son in Carlisle died at home from multiple rib and sternum fractures sustained from what a pathologist said were caused by 'three separate assaults' over a ...