Abstract

Approximately 90% of thoracic injures occur due to blunt trauma. We reported an 11-year-old boy referred to our hospital complaining of painful breathing that started following a blunt chest trauma. Computed tomography demonstrated a displaced fracture in left 6^th rib, and a bone fragment was stuck on the lung parenchyma. During thoracoscopy we removed the stuck bone fragment from the lung parenchyma. We observed an interesting finding that laterobasal segment of the lower lobe of the lung had herniated into anterior chest wall, which was successfully reduced. The patient was discharged uneventfully on postoperative day 4. In this paper, we aimed to present a case characterized with lung herniation to subcutaneous tissue due to rib fracture and subsequent thoracic wall tissue defect following a blunt thoracic trauma