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Evolution of traumatically acquired infracristal ventricular septal defect
C Reed1, R Tamburro, M Bugnitz
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Pediatric Cardiology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Nonpenetrating traumatic rupture of the ventricular septum is rare. This case report describes the evolution of such a lesion documented by echocardiography and color flow Doppler. Included is a brief discussion of postulated mechanisms for this rare phenomenon.