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CAPT. NEIL E. CROW, MC; CAPT. BYRON G. BROGDON, MC

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(5):791-795.

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Introduction

Interventricular septal defects resulting from nonpenetrating trauma are rarely diagnosed antemortem. In 1952, Pollock et al.⁷ reviewed the literature and found 12 cases to which they added 1 autopsied case of isolated rupture of the healthy interventricular septum. Recently, Cary and Hurst ² reported one additional case diagnosed at autopsy. The first recorded case established by cardiac catheterization was reported by Guilfoil³ in 1953. We have not found any other catheter-proven cases resulting from nonpenetrating injury. Two surviving cases are presented.

Report of Cases

CASE 1.

—A 13-year-old boy was injured by a truck wheel passing over his thorax on Aug. 16, 1954. When he was hospitalized, a loud systolic murmur was audible over the entire precordium. Chest x-ray demonstrated pulmonary contusion, with normal cardiac size and configuration (Fig. 1A).

Prior to this accident, the child was active and in good health.

Apparent recovery occurred in two . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. A. F.

From the Radiology Service, 2349th USAF Hospital, Parks Air Force Base, Calif.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 25, 1958.

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