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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;67:240-241
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Chronic traumatic aortic pseudoaneurysm: resolution with observation

Adam E. Saltman, MD, PhDa, Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhDa

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lahey Hitchcock Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

Accepted for publication June 18, 1998.

Address reprint requests to Dr Svensson, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lahey Hitchcock Clinic, 41 Mall Rd, Burlington, MA 01803
e-mail: (lars.g.svensson{at}lahey.org)

Immediate operative repair is the most commonly recommended treatment for traumatic aortic ruptures, regardless of age or size of the lesion. We report a patient who presented with a large chronic aortic pseudoaneurysm and has been thus far managed nonoperatively with shrinkage of his lesion and no symptoms.






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