TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - Commotio cordis, revisited
JO  - American journal of forensic medicine and pathology
A1  - Frazer, M.
A1  - Mirchandani, H.
SP  - 249
EP  - 251
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
N2  - Nonpenetrating cardiac injuries due to direct precordial blunt impacts are a commonly encountered phenomenon in medicolegal offices. These injuries vary from contusions to valvular lacerations, or papillary muscle rupture to coronary arterial injury with resulting infarction. A less commonly occurring manifestation of nonpenetrating injury is a concussion of the heart (commotio cordis), often with dramatic physiological consequences but no morphologic cardiac injury. We describe four case reports of this entity. The cases were collected over a 5-year period (1978-1983) from the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office in Detroit, Michigan.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0195-7910
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -