Citation

Murakami R, Tajima H, Ichikawa K, Kobayashi Y, Sugizaki K, Yamamoto K, Kurokawa A, Kumazaki T. Eur. Radiol. 1998; 8(1): 60-62.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology, Tama-Nagayama Hospital, Nippon Medical School, 1-7-1 Nagayama, Tama, Tokyo 206, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9442131

Abstract

A rare case of traumatic injury of the distal descending aorta associated with thoracic spine injury is reported. A 21-year-old man was admitted after a traffic accident. Thoracic CT and angiography demonstrated a false aneurysm of the distal descending aorta and a compression fracture of the eleventh thoracic vertebra. At emergency surgery, a transverse linear tear at the level of the aortic hiatus was confirmed and repaired.

Language: en