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Cardiac tamponade following sternal puncture in two patients
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|July 5, 2001
Abstract:
Sternal puncture for harvesting bone marrow is a procedure with potentially lethal complications. Both the occurrence of pneumothorax and sternal fracture are reported. We present two patients with a cardiac tamponade following elective sternal puncture. (See Editorial p. 4).