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Plastic bowing of the ribs in children

โœ Scribed by P. A. Caro; S. Borden


Book ID
104758292
Publisher
Springer
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
294 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-2348

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โœฆ Synopsis


Four cases of plastic bowing of the ribs are presented. In three patients with Werdnig-Hoffman disease, plastic curvatures were associated with chronic pneumonia and atelectasis. We postulate that intrapulmonary retractive forces can deform ribs thinned by muscular atrophy. In turn, thoracic collapse can perpetuate lobar and segmental atelectasis. In one case of osteogenesis imperfecta without pneumonia, we believe normal muscle forces bent ribs weakened by deficiency of normal cortical architecture.


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