title: [Scar cancer and rib fractures. Causality or coincidence?].
abstract: On consulting our archives in order to give a casuistic contribution to the scar-cancer theory, we have met with a new datum: in 60 patients affected with a lung carcinoma, 13 of these, i.e. 21.6%, had suffered with a previous thoracic trauma with or without rib fractures.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012253:Rib Fractures / Q000150:complications*; D012598:Sclerosis
vernacular_title: Scar cancer e fratture costali. Causalità o casualità?