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A fatal case of heart and pericardium rupture after non-penetrating chest trauma by road accident
Heart lacerations following a non-penetrating chest trauma are rare events, few described in the literature. We report the case of a young woman who died just after a road accident, which determined a blunt thoracic trauma, with perforation of the right ventricle and the contiguous pericardium porti...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9489524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2022.100697 |
| Sumario: | Heart lacerations following a non-penetrating chest trauma are rare events, few described in the literature. We report the case of a young woman who died just after a road accident, which determined a blunt thoracic trauma, with perforation of the right ventricle and the contiguous pericardium portion, and compound fractures of the sternum and the left ribs. The case presented is a rare evidence of indirect heart trauma, meaning that there was no correspondence between the chest impact/fracture site and the heart/pericardial lacerations. |
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