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Delayed hemopericardium and cardiac tamponade after unrecognized chest trauma
P Bowers1, P Harris, S Truesdell
1Department of Pediatrics, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, New York.
Pediatric Emergency Care
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Delayed hemopericardium after blunt chest wall trauma in children is rare and difficult to recognize before overt signs of cardiac tamponade. We present a 21-month-old girl who developed a late hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade after initially unrecognized blunt chest wall injury.