Citation

Place RJ, Cavanaugh DG. J. Trauma 1995; 38(5): 822-823.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Madigan Amy Medical Center, Tacoma, WA 98431-5000, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7760419

Abstract

Pericardial rupture from blunt thoracic trauma has a high mortality rate. We present a case of a pleuropericardial rupture with cardiac incarceration. The recent literature is reviewed and the previously unreported use of computed tomography as a diagnostic modality is discussed.

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