Cardiac tamponade following traumatic rupture of a mediastinal mature teratoma.

BMJ Case Rep

Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Nara Hospital, Ikoma, Japan.

Published: September 2013

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