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KMID : 0377619970620030229
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1997 Volume.62 No. 3 p.229 ~ p.232
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Open Injury of the Heart
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Abstract
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Traumatic heart disease is after regarded as an uncommon heart disease. However, cardiac trauma is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. Cardiac traumas are classified as penetrating and no penetrating, injuries. The types of injuries are contusion, laceration, rupture, jarring, aneurysm, A-V fistula, pericarditis, thrombosis, and embolism. The injuries may occur in the myocardium, pericardium, endocardium, coronary arteries, and aorta. This review was discussed on the mechanism, types of injury, diagnosis, and significance of medico legal aspects of the cardiac traumas.
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