Myocardial contusion caused by a baseball

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 831-833

  Morikawa, Masaru ^a   Hirose, Kunihiko ^a   Mori, Tatsuhiko ^a   Kusukawa, Jyunya ^a   Tomioka, Nobuyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yutaka ^a  

^a OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; exercise test; myocardial contusion; sports injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; MALE; SPORT INJURY;

EID: 0029807042     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960191014     Document Type: Article

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