Painless Aortic Transection Discharged from the Emergency Department After Blunt Thoracic Trauma | Zendy

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Painless Aortic Transection Discharged from the Emergency Department After Blunt Thoracic Trauma

Author(s) -

Engin Özakın,

Nurdan Acar,

Arif Alper Çevik,

Hamit Özçelik,

Ahmet Tuğrul Zeytin,

Şeyhmus Kaya

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of academic emergency medicine case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.112

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eISSN - 1309-534X

pISSN - 2146-2925

DOI - 10.5505/jaemcr.2012.74936

Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , blunt , thoracic trauma , thorax (insect anatomy) , radiology , blunt trauma , computed tomography , thoracic aorta , surgery , high energy , general surgery , aorta , anatomy , psychiatry , engineering physics , engineering

Aortic injuries which result from blunt thoracic trauma can be overlooked because of the lack of clear clinical findings. In this article,, aortic transection detection with thorax computerized tomography (CT) in a drunk, 35 year old patient with no complaints or findings who was brought to the emergency department (ED) as a result of high energy trauma is presented.

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