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Main pulmonary artery laceration after blunt trauma: accurate preoperative diagnosis
G Ambrose1, L O Barrett, G L Angus
1Department of Surgery, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, New York 11554, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 4, 2000
Abstract:
Blunt 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.