[Diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic significance of sternal fractures].

This paper is a retrospective study based on a group of 62 patients with sternal fractures (SF), selected from a group of 637 patients presented in our unit with thoracic trauma between 1997 and 2004. The aim of this study is to evaluate SF from the epidemiological, etiopathogenic, diagnostic and therapeutic point of view. The incidence of SF was 12.