Blunt rupture of the heart: Surgical treatment of three different clinical presentations

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1529-1533

  Seguin, Agathe ^a   Fadel, Elie ^a   Mussot, Sacha ^a   Martin, Laurent ^a   Nottin, Remi ^a   Dartevelle, Philippe ^a  

^a CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RUPTURE; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; PATELLA FRACTURE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE; HEMATOTHORAX; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY; SUTURING METHOD; THORAX INJURY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART INJURIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67650616968     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000229794.36463.6d     Document Type: Article

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