A Foreign Body Found in the Pulmonary Artery of a Traffic Accident Victim with a Chest Injury and Near-amputation of the Upper Extremity - A case report - |
Choi, Goang-Min
(Department of Thoracic and cardiovascular Surgery, Hallym University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Hallym University)
Kim, Heung-Cheol (Department of Radiology, Hallym University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Hallym University) Cho, Kwang-Yun (Department of Emergency Medicine, Hallym University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Hallym University) Kim, Hyung-Soo (Department of Thoracic and cardiovascular Surgery, Hallym University Medical Center, College of Medicine, Hallym University) |
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