Citation

Tomić I, Dragas M, Vasin D, Loncar Z, Fatic N, Davidovic L. Ann. Vasc. Surg. 2018; 53: 270.e13-270.e16.

Affiliation

Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1016/j.avsg.2018.05.047

PMID

30081170

Abstract

Blunt abdominal aortic injuries are extremely rare, diagnosed in less than 0.05% of all trauma admissions. Aortic injury caused by a seat belt during a car accident is often referred as "seat-belt aorta". We present a case of an 18-year old woman, restrained back passenger involved in a vehicular collision, sustaining vertebral column and multiple rib fractures, mesenterium and colonic injury and infra-renal aortic contusion with localized dissection and partial thrombosis.

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