Acta chirurgica Iugoslavica
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The authors observed twenty patients having thoracic outlet syndrome diagnosed and operated upon in Neurosurgical clinic in Sarajevo. Clinical presentation of this neurovascular compression and significance of particular symptoms and findings have been discussed through and through. At the end the best operative treatment was discussed and proposed for each kind of thoracic outlet neurovascular compression.
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Out of 207 cases died of trauma, diaphragmatic rupture takes part in 18 (8.7%). The authors tested how often closed diaphragmatic rupture takes part with correlation of neighboring anatomic injury. Because of these rare incidence, a surgeon with injury of the next organs to the diaphragm needs always to think of it's rupture.