Musculoskeletal - Sternal fracture
Caption
8 year old male presented following blunt thoracic trauma from having fallen out of a bouncy house. Clinically he had reproducible bony tenderness to palpation of the anterior chest wall. POCUS revealed normal lung slide in the setting of a sternal fracture. The fracture is pictured on the left side of the image as a defect in the cortex with adjacent swelling/hematoma formation; also notice a buckle fracture to the sternal growth plate at the right of the screen. Dr. Paul Khalil, Emergency Medicine Physician @denverem