Blunt traumatic cardiac rupture: A 5-year experience

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 212, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 701-704

  Brathwaite, Collin E M ^a   Rodriguez, Aurelio ^a,b   Turney, S Z ^a   Dunham, C M ^a   Cowley, R A ^a  

^a Maryland Inst Emergency Med S   (United States)

^b MIEMSS ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RUPTURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART INJURIES; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGE; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0025607106     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199012000-00008     Document Type: Article

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