Incomplete rib fractures in children with combined trauma (clinical and morphological study)

The cases of closed thoracic injuries have been analyzed in clinical practice and during sectional investigation in children. Rib injury character, incidence and localization of incomplete fractures have been studied, as well as correlation of the parameter investigated in view of injury mechanism, injury severity and children age. The tactics of clinical examination of children with severe thoracic injury has been substantiated, as well as that in lethal outcomes - details of medicolegal examination.