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KMID : 0378019820250110119
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New Medical Journal
1982 Volume.25 No. 11 p.119 ~ p.123
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Golfer´s Fracture of the Ribs
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Abstract
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Golfer´s fracture is a stress fracture of the posterior portion of left 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8th ribs and it is concidered to be caused by repeated strenuous pulling of serratus anterior muscle upon the corresponding ribs.
Usually this fracture happens to beginners and goes uneventful healing, however if fracture end is displaced significantly by repeated excercise, serious complication may occur. Author analysed 51 cases of Golfer´s fracture of the ribs. The results are as follows.
1. All cases are fifth and early sixth decade male.
2. Sites of involvement are left 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8th posterior ribs at angle portion in 50 cases of right handed man and right 4, 5th ribs in one case of left handed man. Multiple rib involvement is seen in 31 cases (61%) and involvement of left 5th and/or 6th rib is by far the most frequent, being 46 cases (90%).
3. Radiologic findings of each fractured rib are club are club shaped local enlargement 60%, angular displacement of fracture end 2100, local spiculation of fracture site 10%, visibly fracture line with bony -callus 9°0.
4. Complications are seen in 14 cases (27%), showing local pleural thickening or. adhesion in 9 cases, local. hemothorax in 2 cases, linear fibrosis of lung in 2 cases, hemopneumothoraxx in 1 case.
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