Acta Med. 2006, 49: 129-132

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2017.125

Posttraumatic Pneumopericardium: A Sign of Severe Injury or Radiodiagnostic Rarity?

Vladimír Lonskýa, Jiří Manďáka, Jan Harrera, Martin Tunaa, Petr Dvořákb, Tomáš Dědekc, Jan Dominika

aCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Cardiac Surgery, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
bCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Radiology, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
cCharles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Hradec Králové, Departments of Traumatology, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Received February 1, 2006
Accepted May 1, 2006

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