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Pulmonary artery laceration and tension pneumothorax in blunt chest trauma
1Department of Radiology, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210.
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Traumatic laceration of the pulmonary artery is rare and is associated with a high mortality rate. The article describes a patient with pulmonary artery laceration from blunt chest trauma who presented with tension pneumothorax. Potentially life-threatening intrathoracic bleeding was not apparent until the pneumothorax was decompressed.