These patients deserve a supraclavicular cervical rib resection and an anterior scalenectomy. Seventy-five percent of these patients have additional bands, the most common of which are type IV or ...

Removal of ribs – usually one rib above and one below the tumor and possibly the ... Soft tissue sarcomas of the chest wall: Results of surgical resection. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 101:843–54, 1991.

and transaxillary first rib resection. Similar patients with neurovascular symptoms but without cervical ribs had operative findings as follows: 77% type IV, 47% type V, and 37% type III.