Tension hemomediastinum secondary to blunt chest trauma in a patient with an anomalous manubrial-sternal junction

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1489-1491

  Marinaro, Jon ^a   Zwehl Burke, Sara ^a   McAnally, James ^a   Crandall, Cameron ^a   Demarest, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART RATE; HEART SOUND; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SWEATING; TENSION; TENSION HEMOMEDIASTINUM; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DEFORMITY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INJURY; LIGATION; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DRAINAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MANUBRIUM; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STERNUM; THORACIC ARTERIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67649664051     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31802e749d     Document Type: Article

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