Citation

Klena JW, Kihara T, Graves C. Crash Prev. Injury Control 1999; 1(1): 63-66.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Publisher Overseas Publishers Association - Gordon and Breach)

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Abstract

The seat belt sign is a cutaneous injury caused by a restraint during deceleration.  The findings reveal that the presence of a seat belt sign during physical exam was correlated with computer tomography findings and the presence of a blunt intestinal injury requiring operative intervention.