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                                                                                    <journal-title>Journal of Emergency Medicine Case Reports</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2149-9934</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Acil Tıp Uzmanları Derneği</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.33706/jemcr.1311287</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Clinical Sciences (Other)</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Klinik Tıp Bilimleri (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                                                            <article-title>Detection of Sternum Fracture with POCUS Despite Normal Computed Tomography Findings: A Case Report</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0573-978X</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Tomar Güneysu</surname>
                                    <given-names>Songül</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7851-7881</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Aslaner</surname>
                                    <given-names>Mehmet Ali</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-0656</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Derinöz-güleryüz</surname>
                                    <given-names>Okşan</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20231231">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>31</month>
                    <year>2023</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>14</volume>
                                        <issue>4</issue>
                                        <fpage>77</fpage>
                                        <lpage>80</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20230608">
                        <day>06</day>
                        <month>08</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20231122">
                        <day>11</day>
                        <month>22</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2010, Journal of Emergency Medicine Case Reports</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of Emergency Medicine Case Reports</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                                        <abstract><p>Sternal fractures are extremely rare in children. It often develops after high-energy chest trauma. Many methods other than ultrasonography are used in the diagnosis of sternal fractures. However, Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can outperform other methods due to its ease of use, less radiation and fast results. A thirteen-year-old male patient was brought due to chest pain that started after blunt chest trauma after falling from a height. In her initial evaluation in the trauma room, the patient&#039;s respiratory and cardiovascular examinations were found to be normal. On palpation, there was local tenderness in the middle 1/3 of the sternum. No pathology was detected in E-FAST. The portable chest radiograph was normal. POCUS was performed after the patient did not respond to analgesic treatment and had local sensitivity on the sternum. A sternal fracture was detected. Suspicious cortical irregularity was detected in repeated chest X-ray and thorax CT was reported as normal. When CT was re-evaluated, a wet tree fracture was observed in the sternum body. The patient was discharged without any complications. In this article, the importance of diagnosing a sternal fracture case whose computed tomography was reported as normal with POCUS and integrating rapid, noninvasive and radiation-free ultrasonography into the physical examination will be discussed in the management of these patients.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>sternal fracture</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  trauma</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  POCUS</kwd>
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