Sternal Fractures Occur Most Often in Old Cars to Seat-Belted Drivers Without Any Airbag Often With Concomitant Spinal Injuries: Clinical Findings and Technical Collision Variables Among 42,055 Crash Victims

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 444-450

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Wagner, Sebastian ^a   Haasper, Carl ^a   Probst, Christian ^a   Krettek, Christian ^a   Otte, Dietmar ^a   Richter, Martinus ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; GERMANY; HEART CONTUSION; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SEATBELT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STERNUM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FRACTURES, BONE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEAT BELTS; SPINAL INJURIES; STERNUM;

EID: 33746082087     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.046     Document Type: Article

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