The management of acute thoracic injuries

The management of thoracic injuries.

WITH THE roads daily becoming choked with fast cars, Casualty Departments throughout the country are increasingly familiar with major chest injuries. The crushing forces applied to the chest as the driver is thrown against the steering column, and the stresses imposed upon mediastinal structures by rapid deceleration in head-on collision often produce injuries so severe that death is instantane...

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Endovascular management of traumatic thoracic aortic injuries.

BACKGROUND Endovascular surgery has recently been extended to the treatment of blunt traumatic aortic injuries. Since most of these injuries occur at the aortic isthmus, graft fixation in proximity to the origin of the left subclavian artery (LSA) has been a concern. Covering the LSA with graft fabric lengthens the proximal fixation site and should minimize proximal endoleaks. We therefore wish...

Acute injuries of the upper thoracic spine associated with paraplegia.

A review of 35 cases of acute injury of the upper thoracic spine associated with paraplegia was done. In 32, a fracture-dislocation was present; in two, there was a dislocation without associated fracture; and in one, neither fracture nor dislocation was identified. A total of 22 cases conformed to a pattern of injury consisting of anterior fracture dislocation with disruption of the intervenin...

[Acute injuries of the thoracic aorta and its branches].