Citation

Gammie JS, Katz WE, Swanson ER, Peitzman AB. J. Trauma 1996; 40(1): 126-127.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8576976

Abstract

Medial dissection of the aorta after blunt trauma is a rare occurrence. We report the case of a 79-year-old woman injured in a motor vehicle crash who suffered an acute DeBakey type I aortic dissection.

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