Traditional treatment for broken ribs often centers on rest, time, and pain management, but what has become evident in recent years is that such passive treatment comes at a cost to patients. Rib ...

Isolated rib fractures are common injuries that are treated nonoperatively. However, in the setting of multiple rib fractures, there may be chest wall instability or a flail chest. Niloofar Dehghan ...

Point-of-care ultrasound-guided thoracic (POCUS-THOR) biopsies performed in an outpatient clinic are safe and have high diagnostic accuracy.

A middle-aged man whose heart had expanded to fill his entire chest cavity has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition known as Wall to Wall Heart. In a case report published in the British ...

Pectus excavatum is a developmental issue with the chest in which the sternum or breastbone caves inward and creates a sunken appearance. It is also known as cobbler’s chest or funnel chest. Pectus ...