… External support involves using a device from outside the chest wall to splint rib fractures until
… Geometry of human ribs pertinent to orthopedic chest-wall reconstruction. J Biomech. 2007 …

… examinations, affect seriously the functional repair of orthopedic implants in vivo [14,15]. …
chest wall implant was only designed from the 4th rib to 6th rib (R 4 -R 6 ), and the geometrical …

… This paper evaluates the human rib’s complex geometry by … The model constructed by the
geometrical rib sweep does not … (ie, what if the rib geometry was reconstructed by steel or 3D …

… Conversely, reconstructions of real-life crashes using an updated THUMS AM50 Version 3
… develop generic models of ribs one to 12, based on averaged geometrical and material data, …

… ribs and with that the natural shape and function of the whole chest wall, surgical rib fixation
… injuries of the chest wall, and/or if even a thoracotomy for repair of other concomitant …

… This often translates to a clinical flail which is associated with paradoxical chest wall …
thoracic/orthopedic/trauma surgeons who thought a patient needed a repair had experience …

… reconstructing chest wall defects. Liu Yongen et al.[5] according to the extent of chest wall
damage involves the size and specific shape of … to human motion and clinical orthopedics. The …

… Li [5, 6], and the anatomical features of their functional motion [7, 8], a calculated geometric
… are observed for pairs of ribs I–V, but the stress state in pairs of ribs I–IV is insignificant, and …

… ellipse that best matches the shape of a large circular … chest wall. If it were to try to replicate
the soft tissues, it may not be meaningful either because it would compare animal to human, …