From: Chest trauma experience over eleven-year period at al-mouassat university teaching hospital-Damascus: a retrospective review of 888 cases
Morbidity
Number of cases
Percentage (%)
Prolonged air leak
39
4.4
Clotted Hemothorax
15
1.7
Atelectasis
7
0.8
Pneumonia
5
0.56
Empyema
ARDS
3
0.33
Surgical bleeding
2
0.22
Peptic ulcer