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Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation
Pericardial rupture, with associated cardiac herniation, is generally fatal. Diagnosis is difficult and frequently missed due to the subtlety of identifying characteristics. We report a case of a left sided pericardial rupture and cardiac herniation resulting from a high speed motorcycle collision....
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/946061 |
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author | Glotzer, O. S. Bhakta, A. Fabian, T. |
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description | Pericardial rupture, with associated cardiac herniation, is generally fatal. Diagnosis is difficult and frequently missed due to the subtlety of identifying characteristics. We report a case of a left sided pericardial rupture and cardiac herniation resulting from a high speed motorcycle collision. This report describes the course of treatment from the emergent admission to the diagnosis of the pericardial tear to retrospective CT analysis and rupture identification. In addition the difficulties of initial diagnosis, key symptoms, and identification of CT images are presented and discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-41457432014-09-02 Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation Glotzer, O. S. Bhakta, A. Fabian, T. Case Rep Surg Case Report Pericardial rupture, with associated cardiac herniation, is generally fatal. Diagnosis is difficult and frequently missed due to the subtlety of identifying characteristics. We report a case of a left sided pericardial rupture and cardiac herniation resulting from a high speed motorcycle collision. This report describes the course of treatment from the emergent admission to the diagnosis of the pericardial tear to retrospective CT analysis and rupture identification. In addition the difficulties of initial diagnosis, key symptoms, and identification of CT images are presented and discussed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4145743/ /pubmed/25184070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/946061 Text en Copyright © 2014 O. S. Glotzer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Glotzer, O. S. Bhakta, A. Fabian, T. Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation |
title | Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation |
title_full | Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation |
title_fullStr | Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation |
title_full_unstemmed | Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation |
title_short | Blunt Force Thoracic Trauma: A Case Study of Pericardial Rupture and Associated Cardiac Herniation |
title_sort | blunt force thoracic trauma: a case study of pericardial rupture and associated cardiac herniation |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/946061 |
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