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Successful treatment of exsanguinating aortic injury from a fractured rib
1Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, USA.
The American Surgeon
|December 8, 1998
Abstract:
A 57-year-old man presented in shock after a 15-foot fall from a ladder. A massive left hemothorax was present. He underwent prompt thoracotomy and was found to have a penetrating injury of the descending thoracic aorta caused by a fractured rib. Successful management of this type of aortic injury has not been previously reported.