-
Review Case Reports
Main pulmonary artery laceration after blunt trauma: accurate preoperative diagnosis.
- G Ambrose, L O Barrett, G L Angus, T Absi, and G W Shaftan.
- Department of Surgery, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, New York 11554, USA.
- Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2000 Sep 1; 70 (3): 955-7.
AbstractBlunt chest trauma is associated with a variety of lethal injuries, many of which are responsible for prehospital mortality. Major intrathoracic vascular injury accounts for a vast majority of these fatal injuries. Patients surviving after main pulmonary artery injury are rare. We present the case of a patient who sustained a main pulmonary artery laceration as a result of a blunt motor vehicle crash. He was diagnosed accurately by computed tomography and underwent successful repair.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..