Direct repair of right atrial rupture after blunt chest trauma without cardiopulmonary bypass

Swiss Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 61-62

  Dodge, Ali ^a,b   Fischer, A P ^a   Sadeghi, H ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt cardiac trauma; Right atrial rupture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART RUPTURE; HEMATOTHORAX; INJURY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RUPTURE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0031596942     PISSN: 10239332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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