Moir J S, Ashcroft G P
Department of Orthopaedics, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK.
J R Coll Surg Edinb. 1995 Apr;40(2):139-41.
A series of three cases of severe injury caused by involvement in an accident while wearing lap seat-belts is presented. More than 30 years after the term 'seat-belt syndrome' was coined, attention still requires to be drawn to the likely combination of severe spinal and intra-abdominal injuries in such patients.