Reconstructive options of the chest wall after trauma: a narrative review

Abstract

Background and Objective: Trauma remains the third leading cause of death in the world and the involvement of the chest with multiple rib fractures is an aggravating factor in the patient's outcomes. We perform a review of the literature, examining the current surgical options, in order to evaluate the most effective method of restoring quickly the excellent general conditions. Methods:We carried out research of the papers in literature by performing a search on the MEDLINE database through PubMed including works from the past 10 years using the following criteria: "chest trauma AND chest wall". A total of 1,385 results were obtained and 1,108 articles were identified after the duplicates were removed. Only 214 were rated relevant after reading the full text.