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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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Autores principales: Kaul, Pankaj, Somsekhar, Ganti, Macauley, Graeme
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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