Intracardiac Shrapnel in a Polytraumatized Child

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1083-1085

  Gasparovic, Hrvoje ^a,b   Stern Padovan, Ranka ^a   Batinica, Stipe ^a   Saric, Dalibor ^a   Jelic, Ivan ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HUMAN; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGAN INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMOPERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON;

EID: 1442324627     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01221-9     Document Type: Article

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