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Case Reports
. 2020 Apr 27;192(17):E454.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.191446.

Cardiac herniation after blunt thoracic trauma

Jonathon Broughton  1 , Duncan Maguire  2 , Nicholas LeBlanc  2
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Case Reports

Cardiac herniation after blunt thoracic trauma

Jonathon Broughton et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Chest radiograph of a 24-year-old man with cardiac herniation caused by blunt thoracic trauma showing (A) dextrocardia (black arrow). (B) Postoperative view showing reduction of dextrocardia and resolution of the normal heart border (black arrow).
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