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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-12-01
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Series: | Trauma Case Reports |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352644022000930 |