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Surgical repair for chronic traumatic thoracic aneurysm after 12-year follow-up
Norihiro Kondo1, Masayuki Koyama, Fuminori Wakayama
1First Department of Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan.
Abstract:
A 39-year-old man underwent surgical repair of chronic traumatic thoracic aneurysm after 12-year follow-up at our hospital. Eighteen years prior to surgery, he had been involved in a traffic accident, suffering a left hemopneumothorax. Chronic traumatic thoracic aneurysm is extremely rare that few guidelines for surgical intervention exist for this disorder. However, it has been observed that all patients with new symptoms should be operated promptly, and that asymptomatic aneurysm detected over 2 years after the initial trauma can be monitored by careful follow-up pending symptomatic or radiologic change. The present case provides additional support for these strategies.
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