Pericardial tamponade with a positive abdominal FAST scan in blunt chest trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 743-745

  Speight, Julian ^a,b   Sanders, Mark ^a  

^a WHANGAREI HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33748744610     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000236575.08568.de     Document Type: Article

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