Pericardial rupture and cardiac herniation in blunt trauma
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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. This report describes the course of treatment from the emergent admission to the diagnosis of the...
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Seong Cheol Jeong, Si Young Choi, Jae Jun Kim and Yong Hwan Kim* Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea * Corresponding author. Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital 65-1, Geumo-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, 480-821, South Korea. Tel: +82-31-8203586; fax: +82-31-8472934; e-mail: cmccs@na...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology Case Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1930-0433
DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2018.02.013