Common carotid artery laceration in a professional hockey player: A case report

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2249-2251

  Bisson, Leslie J ^a   Sanders, Samuel M ^a   Noor, Sonya ^b   Curl, Richard ^b   Mccormack, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b BUFFALO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid artery laceration; Hockey injury; Neck laceration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONVALESCENCE; CRYSTALLOID; DIAPHORESIS; EMERGENCY CARE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACERATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX EDEMA; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NECK; OXYGEN SATURATION; PALLOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RESUSCITATION; SPORT INJURY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; HOCKEY; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; MALE;

EID: 70649106746     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509335190     Document Type: Article

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