Is observation for traumatic hemothorax safe?
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Modern Management of Traumatic Hemothorax
Hemothorax is defined as a bleeding into pleural cavity. Hemothorax is a frequent manifestation of blunt chest trauma. Some authors suggested a hematocrit value more than 50% for differentiation of a hemothorax from a sanguineous pleural effusion. Hemothorax is also often associated with penetrating chest injury or chest wall blunt chest wall trauma with skeletal injury. Much less common, it ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2163-0763,2163-0755
DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000001793