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Complex instability patterns can result in persistent pain, mechanical dysfunction, and impaired respiration. We describe two patients with symptomatic chest wall non-union. Case 1 was a 62-year-old man with posterior non-union of the seventh and eighth ribs and a secondary costal margin rupture with intercostal hernia. He underwent combined posterior rib plating and costal margin reconstruction, nerve-sparing fibre-tape sutures, and double-layer mesh. Case 2 was a 25-year-old man with a radiographically occult rupture and pseudarthrosis of the third parasternal costal cartilage. He was treated with trans-costosternal osteosynthesis and local bone grafting. 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