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Complications of closed chest trauma

The American Journal of Surgery, 1959
Abstract The preceding cases have been used to illustrate various types of closed chest trauma and their complications. The need for team management for the severely injured patient is obvious. We have had good success with the cooperation of the neurosurgeon, urologist, orthopedist, thoracic surgeon, general surgeon, oral surgeon and physiotherapist.
C H, COHN, R R, IMPINK
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Closed Blunt Chest Trauma Causing Mediastinal Abscess

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1996
Posttraumatic bacterial mediastinal abscess resulting from closed blunt trauma without penetrating injury or tracheal or esophageal rupture is, to our knowledge, previously unreported. We report a case of a patient injured in a motor vehicle collision that resulted in closed blunt chest trauma and mediastinal abscess 14 days after injury. Initial chest
M W, Gregory, W M, Jacobsen
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Rupture of Thoracic Aorta Due to Closed-Chest Trauma

Archives of Surgery, 1964
Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is not necessarily a fatal injury. Although over 80% of victims 1 so injured die before reaching a hospital, the immediate survivors should all be candidates for successful emergency surgical correction if the diagnosis is made promptly. Reported experience suggests, however, that surgical intervention has rarely
R J, STONEY, B B, ROE, J V, REDINGTON
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Scintigraphy of major closed chest cardiac trauma in childhood

Pediatric Radiology, 1988
Nonpenetrating chest trauma may result in significant myocardial contusion, a diagnosis which may not be considered due to the apparent "triviality" of the trauma, or may be initially overshadowed by more visible injuries. The presence of myocardial contusion may only become apparent through developing complications and rarely may be lethal.
H T, Williams, J H, Miller
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[Intrapleural hemorrhage in closed chest trauma].

Klinicheskaia khirurgiia, 1995
Four hundred and thirty nine sufferers were treated for closed thoracic trauma. Of them, 39 (8.9%) were operated on. Drainage of the pleural cavity was performed in 78 (17.7%) patients. In 2.1% of cases, clotted hemothorax was diagnosed. In 5 patients, thoracoscopic destruction of the clotted hemothorax was performed according to original technique ...
G N, Ursol, L P, Kondratenko, V A, Davydkin, V A, Luntovskiĭ, V F, Deundiak   +4 more
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[Heart rupture by closed chest trauma].

Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux, 2002
Cardiac rupture is certainly unrecognised in the context of closed chest trauma. There have been few reports in the literature despite the fact that autopsy series show that it is the second cause of death after serious thoracic injury. The authors report three cases of traumatic rupture of the heart.
P, Corbi, C, Jayle, E, Donal, M, Rahmati, A, Lemaire, J, Allal   +5 more
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Flail chest in closed chest trauma.

Papua and New Guinea medical journal, 1985
The dramatic events following closed chest injury are often unpredictable and may be fatal. Chest injury is one of the commonest causes of road traffic accident deaths in Papua New Guinea. Flail chest is an important complication of closed chest injury which has not been described previously in the locally published literature.
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[Open and closed chest trauma (author's transl)].

Praxis und Klinik der Pneumologie, 1979
The observations made in 1,023 cases of chest trauma during 1947-1976 inclusive are analysed. According to the extent of the injuries they were classified as mild (group 1), moderate (group 2) and severe (group 3). The clinical picture was dominated by other than chest injuries in 45% of patients in group 1, in 66% in group 2 and in 51% in group 3 ...
H, Lüllig, A, Encke
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Some mechanisms of the activating effect of closed chest trauma

Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1984
Experimental studies of the state of the immune system after moderately severe closed chest trauma (CCT) conducted in the writers' laboratory, confirmed by clinical electrophysiological, and morphological data, revealed stimulation of the primary immune response to sheep's red blood cells (SRBC).
E. A. Vagner, N. N. Kevorkov, K. V. Shmagel'   +2 more
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Roentgenographic Findings in Closed-Chest Trauma

Postgraduate Medicine, 1968
Paul C. Hodges, A. Everette James
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