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Renev was transported via ambulance to the hospital in Charleville-Mézières where the Team Director Alain Gallopin and team doctor confirmed the Kazakh broke his right clavicle, the same fracture which afflicted teammate Lance Armstrong earlier this week at the
Or his clavicle is broken, because that's only way to account for a hitch in swing.— Deadspin
I next cut through the lessor pectoral muscle close up to the clavicle, and holding the upper end of the vessel between my finger and thumb, passed an aneurism-needle, so as to apply a ligature about half an inch above the orifice.— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
When the clavicle is depressed to the fullest extent, if then the sterno-cleido-mastoid and scalenus muscles be relaxed by inclining the head and neck towards the artery, I believe it may be possible to arrest the flow of blood through the artery by compressing it against the first rib, and this position will also facilitate the operation of ligaturing the vessel The subclavian vein, W, Plate 5, is removed to some distance from the artery, Q, Plate 5.— Surgical Anatomy

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