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Types of chest injury and outcomes.
| Types of chest injury | n (%) | Outcomes |
x2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead | Alive | |||
| Hemothorax | 24(12.5) | 4 | 20 | 0.087 |
| Pneumothorax | 20(10.4) | 3 | 17 | |
| Hemopneumothorax | 35(18.2) | 10 | 25 | |
| Pulmonary contusion | 28(14.6) | 8 | 20 | |
| Rib fracture | 62(32.3) | 23 | 39 | |
| Clavicular fracture | 18(9.4) | 3 | 15 | |
| Others | 5(2.6) | 2 | 3 | |
