We present the case of an 18-year-old man involved in a fall with blunt abdominal trauma.
The patient had hypovolemic shock and findings of an acute abdomen. Initial computed …

Blunt traumatic abdominal aortic dissection is extremely rare and potentially deadly. We
present the case of a 62-year-old man involved in a frontal car crash. After emergency …

BACKGROUND: Dissection of the abdominal aorta caused by blunt trauma is a rare injury,
often complicated by thrombosis within the true and false lumens and sometimes aortic …

Purpose: We describe the case of a 34-year-old man with blunt abdominal trauma. Initial
abdominal computed tomography scan showed retroperitoneal hematoma, pancreatic …

Dissection is a recognized finding after blunt trauma to the abdominal aorta. Immediate and
long-term prognosis is poor without surgical treatment especially since most patients present …

Traumatic injury of the abdominal aorta is rare and potentially lethal. The authors present the
case of a restrained passenger who was involved in a high-speed, head-on motor vehicle …

This case report describes a patient with an intimal flap of the abdominal aorta after a motor
vehicle crash. The patient was an unrestrained driver with minimal anterior chest wall pain …

Nonpenetrating trauma is a rare cause of aortic dissection[1, 2]. When such a dissection
occurs, it is usually the result of a posttraumatic aortic tear near the anchored region of the …

We implanted stents in three patients who had traumatic abdominal aortic dissections,
complicated by right limb ischemia in one case. The circulating false channel extended to …

Background: Traumatic dissections of the thoracic aorta with consecutive organ ischemia
are emergencies with an enormously high mortality despite immediate surgical therapy …