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Retrosternal haematoma presenting as cardiac tamponade in a blunt trauma patient
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A 36-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after being involved in a devastating car accident. A computed tomography (CT) scan after primary resuscitation showed lacerated liver and focal blood accumulation above the assumed haemopericardium effusion (fig 1A). Emergent laparotomy for bleeding control was performed. Only sanguineous …
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