Pericardial rupture after blunt chest trauma

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-52

  Farhataziz, Nabeel ^a   Landay, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart; Herniation; Pericardium; Rupture; Trauma

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART MASSAGE; HERNIA; HUMAN; LACERATION; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TUBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART INJURIES; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 14644395472     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rti.0000139391.26138.dd     Document Type: Article

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