Blunt cardiac rupture

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 132-135

  Fulton, J O ^a   Nel, L ^a   De Groot, K M ^a   Von Oppell, U O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RUPTURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LIVER RUPTURE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; SHOCK; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HEART ATRIA; HEART INJURIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032468675     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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