Reply to: Threshold of number of rib fractures in elderly blunt trauma: A simple or complex matter of numbers?

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¹ University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, Madison, WI.
² University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, Madison, WI. Electronic address: agarwal@surgery.wisc.edu.

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Nikita Shulzhenko et al. Surgery. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;162(6):1343-1344.

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.05.009. Epub 2017 Jul 11.

¹ University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, Madison, WI.
² University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, Madison, WI. Electronic address: agarwal@surgery.wisc.edu.

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Number of rib fractures thresholds independently predict worse outcomes in older patients with blunt trauma.
Shulzhenko NO, Zens TJ, Beems MV, Jung HS, O'Rourke AP, Liepert AE, Scarborough JE, Agarwal SK. Shulzhenko NO, et al. Surgery. 2017 Apr;161(4):1083-1089. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.10.018. Epub 2016 Dec 5. Surgery. 2017. PMID: 27932031
Threshold of number of rib fractures in elderly blunt trauma: A simple or complex matter of numbers?
Dikmen Y, Bayoumy Delis P, Esquinas AM. Dikmen Y, et al. Surgery. 2017 Dec;162(6):1343. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.03.007. Epub 2017 Apr 18. Surgery. 2017. PMID: 28431802 No abstract available.