Postoperative chest radiograph motorcycle collision

This postoperative chest radiograph is from a patient in her late thirties who was ejected off a motorcycle, sustaining multiple right-sided rib fractures. The implanted plates can be seen laterally and are stabilizing ribs 5 through 9. Even though nearly all the ribs laterally on the right were fractured, operative fixation of the ribs of the mid-chest was sufficient to stabilize the entire chest wall.