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Innominate arterial rupture distal to anomalous origin of left carotid artery
C S Roberts1, J D Sadoff, D R White
1Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7065, USA. charless@med.unc.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2000
Isolated innominate arterial rupture from blunt trauma is rare. We present the case of a pregnant woman with an isolated injury to the innominate artery distal to an anomalous origin of the left common carotid artery. A safe operative technique is described.
Isolated innominate arterial rupture from blunt trauma is rare. We present the case of a pregnant woman with an isolated injury to the innominate artery distal to an anomalous origin of the left common carotid artery. A safe operative technique is described.