Blunt Pericardial Rupture with Cardiac Herniation: Unusual Radiographic Findings

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 211-

  Lee, Joanne ^a   Schinco, Miren A ^a   Frykberg, Eric R ^a   Booth, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART INJURY; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0842278674     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000025326.79703.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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