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Right-sided 'trapdoor' incision provides necessary exposure of complex cervicothoracic vascular injury: a case report
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, Vol 17, Iss 1, p 46 (2009)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Combined cervicothoracical vascular traumas are very uncommon, mostly resulting from penetrating injuries. These injuries are accompanied with very high morbidity and mortality rates. In this manuscript we present a case of hemodinamycally unstable trauma patient whose major injury was penetrating trauma of both cervical and mediastinal major vessels. The standard surgical approach of median sternotomy and neck incision was insufficient, and the patient's instability forced the authors to improvise previously not described right-sided trap-door thoracomy. Incorporation of such incision in the surgical arsenal may be very effective in selective cases
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Thoracic Injuries
medicine.medical_treatment
Case Report
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
medicine.artery
Medicine
Humans
Major injury
Subclavian artery
Surgical approach
Trauma patient
business.industry
Mortality rate
lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
lcsh:RC86-88.9
Vascular System Injuries
medicine.disease
Surgery
Median sternotomy
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Emergency Medicine
Wounds, Gunshot
business
Sternocleidomastoid muscle
Penetrating trauma
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17577241
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fe07549b17cf55b43dc14a354cebf639