Penetrating Stab Injury of the Thoracic Aorta
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Penetrating stab injury of the thoracic aorta.
A36-year-old male psychiatric nurse was stabbed in the back with a knife by a patient suffering from acute psychosis. After initial treatment in an outside hospital, he was transferred in stable cardiopulmonary condition to our department because a lung injury was suspected (Figure 1). Computed tomography performed while the knife was still in place showed that the blade had penetrated the prox...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.102.9.1068