Lung Injury with Pleuropericardial Rupture Successfully Treated by Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy: Case Report

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1024-1025

  Hermansson, Ulf ^a   Konstantinov, Igor ^a   Träff, Stefan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MOTORCYCLE; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA; RUPTURE; THORACOSCOPY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0029992728     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199606000-00030     Document Type: Article

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