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Secondary left ventricular injury with haemopericardium caused by a rib fracture after blunt chest trauma
Trauma is the third most common cause of death in the West. In the US, approximately 90,000 deaths annually are traumatic in nature and over 75% of casualties from blunt trauma are due to chest injuries. Cardiac injuries from rib fractures following blunt trauma are extremely rare. We report the unu...
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16722596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-8 |