Citation

Harvey KP, Adair JD, Ali MA. J. Trauma 2008; 64(3): 831-833.

Affiliation

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan, USA. kharvey06@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/TA.0b013e318047dfa3

PMID

18332831

Abstract

To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a seat belt-related rupture of the pectoralis major muscle and its successful delayed repair using mesh. We report a case of a 34-year-old white man who sustained a right pectoralis major muscle rupture from a seat belt during a motor vehicle crash. The patient presented to us 2 years after the injury. We introduce a technique using mesh that results in a successful repair of a cosmetically disfiguring chest wall defect.

Language: en