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A late complication of a traumatic flail segment: colonic herniation
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A 64-year-old man was a multiple trauma victim following a motor vehicle accident. He sustained injuries to his head, left leg, a burst fracture of the L4 vertebra and left haemopneumothorax with an associated flail segment involving ribs 8–11 that required a thoracostomy drain. …
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