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Report of a rare case: occult hemothorax due to blunt trauma without obvious injury to other organs

Traumatic hemothorax commonly occurs accompanied by organ damage, such as rib fractures, lung injury and diaphragm rupture. Our reported patient was a 61-year-old man who fell down from a stepladder about 1 meter in height, resulting in a heavy blow to the left abdomen. He consulted a clinic because...

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Autores principales: Ogawa, Fumihiro, Naito, Masahito, Iyoda, Akira, Satoh, Yukitoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24176006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-205