Diseases

Thoracic Injuries

General or unspecified injuries to the chest area.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

General or unspecified injuries to the chest area.

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Chest Injuries
  • Injuries, Chest
  • Injuries, Thoracic
  • Chest Injury
  • Injury, Chest
  • Injury, Thoracic
  • Thoracic Injury

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Aspects Covered

35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified only: prefer specifics like HEART INJURIES; LUNG INJURIES, etc.; consider also / inj with specific parts of the chest

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. C26w.891w

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NLM Classification

WF 985

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Thoracic Injuries. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013898. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013898
  2. Thoracic Injuries. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chest_injury
  3. Thoracic Injuries. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368370