Citation

West CA, Johnson LW, Doucet L, Shah M, Khan I, Heldmann M. J. Vasc. Surg. 2011; 54(2): 515-518.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport, La.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jvs.2010.12.031

PMID

21316902

Abstract

Abdominal aortic injury as a result of blunt trauma is a rare event and has been described in few children. A 6-year-old girl presented with acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia, and a triad of acute aortic occlusion, intra-abdominal visceral injury, and a lumbar chance fracture after sustaining a seat belt injury from a motor vehicle collision. An emergency aortic thromboendarterectomy and primary repair were performed. This represents one of the few reports of acute traumatic aortic thrombosis in a child and highlights the surgical treatment of acute abdominal aortic injury in a pediatric patient.

Language: en