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Comparative Study
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Open vs endovascular repair of blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injuries.
Journal of Vascular Surgery 2010 March
A 42-year-old female is involved in a motor vehicle accident and presents with a number of injuries. She is hemodynamically stable and is found to have multiple rib fractures, a hemopneumothorax, and several uncomplicated long bone fractures. A CT scan of her chest reveals a traumatic injury to her proximal descending thoracic aorta with evidence of pseudoaneurysm formation and surrounding hematoma (Fig 1). The following debate attempts to resolve whether open repair remains the gold standard for the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injuries.
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