Citation

Larsen S, Svane S. Eur. J. Surg. 1992; 158(2): 131-132.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Buskerud Central Hospital, Drammen, Norway.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Taylor & Francis)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1350217

Abstract

A 60-year-old female car driver wearing a combined three-point lap-shoulder seat belt was involved in a head-on-collision. The entire right breast was separated from the chest wall, whereas the overlying skin remained intact. The injury resulted in a rapid development of a monstrous haematoma in the retromammary space, and required emergency mastectomy. Seat belt lesions of the female breast are seldom referred in the literature.

Language: en