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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:955-957
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Main pulmonary artery laceration after blunt trauma: accurate preoperative diagnosis

Gunaseelan Ambrose, MDa, Leonard O. Barrett, MDa, George L.D. Angus, MDa, Tauriq Absi, MDa, Gerald W. Shaftan, MDa

a Department of Surgery, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Angus, Department of Surgery, Nassau County Medical Center, 2201 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow, NY 11554

Blunt chest trauma is associated with a variety of lethal injuries, many of which are responsible for prehospital mortality. Major intrathoracic vascular injury accounts for a vast majority of these fatal injuries. Patients surviving after main pulmonary artery injury are rare. We present the case of a patient who sustained a main pulmonary artery laceration as a result of a blunt motor vehicle crash. He was diagnosed accurately by computed tomography and underwent successful repair.




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