TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1988//
TI  - The incidence of ruptured aorta among vehicular fatalities
JO  - Proceedings: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Annual Conference
A1  - Dischinger, Patricia C.
A1  - Cowley, R. Adams
A1  - Shankar, B. S.
A1  - Smialek, John E.
SP  - 15
EP  - 23
VL  - 32
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N2  - Although blunt injury to the chest with rupture of the thoracic aorta is a frequent occurrence in vehicular accidents, few victims of this injury reach the hospital alive. Thus, analysis of vehicular fatalities resulting from ruptured aorta should give a fairly complete picture of the epidemiologic factors associated with this lesson.    Police reports, autopsy records, and ambulance run-sheets were obtained for the 739 traffic fatalities recorded in Maryland in 1985. Of those victims with complete autopsies, it was determined that 105 or 23.5% had a ruptured thoracic aorta. Characteristics of those accidents are described and contrasted to the other fatalities.<p />
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SN  - 1540-0344
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -