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Traumatic Aortic Transection
Author(s) -
Zissimopoulos Iraklis,
Tsoukas Athanasios,
Koliandris Ioannis,
Christakos Stamatios
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.04005.x
Subject(s) - aortography , medicine , blunt , blunt trauma , radiology , acute aortic syndrome , cardiology , surgery , aorta , aortic dissection
We report three cases of patients with blunt thoracic trauma, who underwent transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) because of high index of clinical suspicion for acute traumatic aortic syndrome. TEE revealed three different locations of aortic injury one of which was not diagnosed with aortography.