Journal article
Fracture of the sternum in motor vehicle accidents and its association with mediastinal injury
Injury, Vol.21(2), pp.81-83
1990
DOI: 10.1016/0020-1383(90)90059-4
PMID: 2351477
Abstract
Sternal fractures occurred in 78 out of 2097 consecutive victims of road traffic accidents who required to attend hospital; an incidence of 3.7 per cent. They were most common in restrained, front seat vehicle occupants involved in frontal collisions, and their frequency increased with age.
There was a positive association with visceral chest injury but the latter was not thought to be the cause of death in any individual. Follow-up of survivors 2–4 years later revealed potential cardiac sequelae in 6 per cent.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Fracture of the sternum in motor vehicle accidents and its association with mediastinal injury
- Creators
- I Otremski - Oxford Road Accident Group, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UKB.R Wilde - Oxford Road Accident Group, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UKJ.L Marsh - Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UKP D McLardy Smith - Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UKR.J Newman - Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Injury, Vol.21(2), pp.81-83
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/0020-1383(90)90059-4
- PMID
- 2351477
- ISSN
- 0020-1383
- eISSN
- 1879-0267
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1990
- Academic Unit
- Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Record Identifier
- 9984040498602771
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