Combined blunt cardiac and pericardial rupture: Review of the literature and report of a new diagnostic algorithm

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 568-574

  May, Addison K ^a,d   Patterson, Mark A ^a   Rue III, Loring W ^a   Schiller, Henry J ^b   Rotondo, Michael F ^c   Schwab, C William ^c  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; HEART RUPTURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIUM; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART RUPTURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; RUPTURE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032999335     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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