Background: Blunt chest trauma can cause severe acute pulmonary dysfunction due to hemo/pneumothorax, rib fractures and lung contusion.
Objectives: To study the long-term effects on lung function tests after patients' recovery from severe chest trauma.
Methods: We investigated the outcome and lung function tests in 13 patients with severe blunt chest trauma and lung contusion.
Trans Am Acad Ophthalmol Otolaryngol
November 1998
Nevropatol Psikhiatriia
February 2004