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Blunt diaphragmatic rupture.
Diaphragmatic injury is often a missed diagnosis in patients with multiple trauma. For this reason, mortality can be high. From 1970 to 1981, 32 patients with diaphragmatic injuries were seen at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. Twenty-four of the patients (22 men and 2 women aged 18 to 79 years) had blunt abdominal or thoracic trauma causing diaphragmatic disruption. Rupture occurred 20 times on ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1873-734X,1010-7940
DOI: 10.1016/s1010-7940(99)00073-1