The thickness of the shadows that accompany ribs or border the lungs on the chest postero-anterior radiographs of 22 obese patients and 22 normal-weight subjects was measured, when present, at several ...

We prefer open reduction and internal fixation with plates and screws and with intercalary tricorticocancellous grafts to obtain union and restore the clavicle to its normal length. The purpose of ...

The collarbone, or clavicle, is a long, thin bone between the breastbone or sternum and the shoulder. A collarbone dislocation occurs when the collarbone moves out of its usual position ...

Hiroshi Urakawa; Satoshi Tsukushi; Kozo Hosono; Hideshi Sugiura; Kenji Yamada; Yoshihisa Yamada; Eiji Kozawa; Eisuke Arai; Naohisa Futamura; Naoki Ishiguro; Yoshihiro Nishida In UBCs of humerus ...

2 In these patients, clinical examination should be supplemented with other diagnostic tools, such as casts, photographs, radiographs, tomography and bone scintigraphy, in order to locate and measure ...