TY - JOUR T1 - Contrecoup haemorrhage in a patient with left pubic fracture but right obturator artery bleeding JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 598 LP - 599 DO - 10.1136/emj.2007.046193 VL - 24 IS - 8 AU - Ying C Huang AU - Peter Liu AU - Jenn-Shyan Su AU - Yi-Lii Lin Y1 - 2007/08/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/24/8/598.abstract N2 - Contrecoup injury following head trauma is well known. It is caused by the acceleration–deceleration mechanism that can be fully explained by Newton’s first law of motion. We report on a victim of a motor vehicle accident with non-displacement left pubis fracture but haemorrhage from the right obturator artery. Contrecoup haemorrhage should be excluded first in unstable patients without evidence of significant trauma but with a minor pelvic fracture. ER -