The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as an attachment point for your ribs and for many muscles and bones. If it seems to you like your neck and low back ...

The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as an attachment point for your ribs and for many muscles and bones. If it seems to you like your neck and low ...

Floating rib ... to the vertebrae in the back. The ribs are part of what's called the axial skeleton and are classified as flat bones. The primary job of flat bones is to protect your internal organs.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the feasibility of using computer-enhanced instrumentation to improve visualization and therefore patient safety during transaxillary first rib resection.

Dogs have 13 paired ribs, numbered 1–13, which articulate with thoracic vertebra of the same number. The diaphragm arises from the ventral borders of the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae and ...

and a minor fracture on a vertebrae on his spine as well as multiple fractured ribs. The broken ribs are the main focus of his treatment, according to his office, so he will undergo a rib fixation ...

From November 1998 to July 2005, 105 patients who failed conservative treatment for thoracic outlet syndrome underwent 131 procedures for thoracic outlet decompression. Eighty-nine endoscopic ...

In the social media post Kern said in addition to a collapsed lung, he also suffered nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae. Kern described his injuries saying, "My body is purple on the ...

The governor’s office said Wednesday that Pillen chose to have a rib fixation procedure ... collapsed lung and a fracture in one of his vertebrae.