Five cases of blunt traumatic cardiac rupture: Success and failure in surgical management

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 200-204

  Namai, Asako ^a   Sakurai, Masahiro ^a   Fujiwara, Hidenori ^a  

^a SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt cardiac rupture; Cardiopulmonary bypass; CT scan; Echocardiography; Median sternotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART RUPTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HEART INJURIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34248392277     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-007-0106-x     Document Type: Article

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