TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - A fatal case of heart and pericardium rupture after non-penetrating chest trauma by road accident
JO  - Trauma case reports
A1  - Sablone, Sara
A1  - Bellino, Mara
A1  - Introna, Francesco
SP  - e100697
EP  - e100697
VL  - 42
IS  - 
N2  - 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 portion, and compound fractures of the sternum and the left ribs. The case presented is a rare evidence of indirect heart trauma, meaning that there was no correspondence between the chest impact/fracture site and the heart/pericardial lacerations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2352-6440
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2022.100697
ID  - ref1
ER  -