• The American surgeon · May 2011

    Seatbelt triad: severe abdominal wall disruption, hollow viscus injury, and major vascular injury.

    • Narong Kulvatunyou, Roxie M Albrecht, Jeffrey S Bender, Randy S Friese, Bellal Joseph, Rifat Latifi, Terrance O'Keefe, Julie L Wynn, and Peter M Rhee.
    • Division of Acute Care SurUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85727-5063, USA. nkulvatunyou@surgery.arizona.edu
    • Am Surg. 2011 May 1;77(5):534-8.

    AbstractThe triad of seatbelt-related severe abdominal wall disruption, hollow viscus injury, and distal abdominal aortic injury after a motor vehicle collision is uncommon. We present a small case series involving those three clinical features with the goal of preventing a future missed diagnosis of the distal abdominal aortic injury in particular.

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