Traumatic rupture of the stomach due to a seat belt.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Injury
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1986
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 47–48
- Identifiers
- PMID: 3770887
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
A case of gastric rupture is described in a patient who was wearing a lap and diagonal inertia reel seat belt at the time of a head-on collision. The literature is reviewed and the mechanism of injury is discussed.
