[The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the sternum].

Some aspects of diagnosis were studied together with treatment options for different disorders of the sternum, its fractures, and sternotomy-related complications in a series of 35 patients, with n = 9, 19 and 7 respectively. It has been ascertained that individualization of modalities of treatment permits securing a clinical effect in a major proportion of patients presenting with pathologies of seldom-occurring localizations.