Blunt cardiac trauma: Lessons learned from the medical examiner

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1259-1264

  Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Georgiou, Chrysanthos ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   DubBose, Joseph ^a   Plurad, David ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a   Toms, Carla ^b   Noguchi, Thomas T ^b   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Office of the Chief Medical Examiner   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Blunt cardiac trauma; Blunt force; Heart injuries; Injury; Thoracic injury; Wounds and Injuries

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CORONER; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HEART RUPTURE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; RISK FACTOR; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 73949109461     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318187a2d2     Document Type: Article

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