Profuse mediastinal hemorrhage due to mediastinitis after a sternal infection.
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A 79-year-old female patient was admitted because of profuse bleeding from a skin defect in the anterior chest due to a deep sternal wound infection. Eighteen years earlier, she had undergone irradiation to treat a sternal metastasis from breast cancer. Computed tomography (CT) showed the extravasation of iodinated contrast material from the ascending aorta. The patient underwent an immediate thoracotomy and recovered. This report presents a very rare case of massive bleeding from the thoracic aorta due to a mediastinal infection after irradiation for sternal metastasis from breast cancer.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia
دوره 20 Suppl شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014