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Lap seat-belts: still trouble after all these years
1Department of Orthopaedics, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK.
Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
A series of three cases of severe injury caused by involvement in an accident while wearing lap seat-belts is presented. More than 30 years after the term 'seat-belt syndrome' was coined, attention still requires to be drawn to the likely combination of severe spinal and intra-abdominal injuries in such patients.