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Thoracic Trauma

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Trauma to the thorax may be the result of penetrating or nonpenetrating forces and may result in serious and often lethal injury.

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  1. Panagiotis N. Symbas
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  1. Beijing Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Medical Center, Beijing, China

    Yingkai Wu MB. ChB. (Professor of Thoracic Surgery) (Professor of Thoracic Surgery)

  2. University of California at San Diego, California, USA

    Richard M. Peters M.D. (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering) (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering)

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© 1986 Science Press, Beijing and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht

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Symbas, P.N. (1986). Thoracic Trauma. In: Wu, Y., Peters, R.M. (eds) International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4259-2_23

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