Mm. Salam et Ee. Frauenhoffer, LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE RUPTURE CAUSED BY A SEAT-BELT - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 40(4), 1996, pp. 642-643
Motor vehicle accidents account for most cases of blunt chest trauma;
seat belts have been implicated as the cause of a few of these injurie
s. We report a case of a seat-belt-induced fatal isolated left atrial
appendage rupture in a 40-year-old female.