[The surgical treatment of closed chest trauma with instability of the thoracic skeleton].

The results of treatment of 864 sufferers with closed thoracic trauma, including 182 with the syndrome of traumatic instability of the chest are summarized. The role and place of severe injuries to the thoracic frame in the structure of a thoracic trauma were elucidated, terminology and typology of this type of trauma were defined more precisely, the effect of injury to the thoracic frame on the outcome of traumatic disease was studied.