A Case of Pericardial Tamponade Caused by Abdominal Knife Stab Injury

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Zhongping Cao

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Zhongping Cao
Department of Anesthesia, The Special Characteristic Medicine Center of Chinese People Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China

A B S T R A C T

This paper reported a case of pericardial tamponade, caused by the blood from abdominal organ injury, which flowed through the diaphragm and pericardial holes into the pericardium. Liver injury, gastric injury, pancreatic injury, diaphragmatic break were found by the following laparotomy exploration.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 24, Nov 2020
Accepted: Wed 23, Dec 2020
Published: Fri 22, Jan 2021

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© 2023 Zhongping Cao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJSCR.2020.04.04