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Right hemothorax: an unusual presentation of ruptured aortic dissection
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tachikawa General Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
This report presents the case of a 55-year-old male with rupture of a descending thoracic aortic dissection into the right hemithorax who successfully underwent prosthetic graft replacement of the involved segment of the aorta through left thoracotomy.