Figure 6.

An 80-year-old female patient who had an unwitnessed fall down multiple stairs. There are multiple displaced fractures of the first 5 right ribs demonstrated on the volumetric 3D CT reconstructions (arrows in a). The subsequent radiograph (b) shows open reduction and internal fixation of the right rib and right clavicle fractures. The patient has developed right lower lobe collapse and consolidation and a right pleural effusion in the interim. There is an endotracheal tube in situ, a right pleural drain and previous bilateral breast augmentations.