Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) after blunt chest trauma is a very rare traumatic affection. We report here a case of blunt chest injury-related VSD and pseudoaneurysm. A 30-year old male truck driver was referred from a trauma center to our hospital seven days after a blunt chest trauma and rib fracture. The patient had severe pulmonary edema and echocardiography showed large VSD. Several m...

Background: A pseudoaneurysm of the internal carotid artery (ICA) at its cervicl part, is a rare and often lethal complication after cervical trauma. The treatment of choice is anticoagulation. Patients with a contraindication for anticoagulation or those who do not improve with standard treatment, warrant either a surgical repair or stent placement. Stent placement posses both short and long t...

Traumatic pseudoaneurysms are relatively frequently mentioned in textbooks of pathology and forensic medicine but their incidence in pathological reports is seldom documented. Our described case presented a patient who suffered from chronic alcoholism and who was repeatedly hospitalised because of various injuries including epidural and subdural hematomas. We present a case of a 69-year-old man...

OBJECTIVE Traumatic pseudoaneurysms are rare but life-threatening lesions. We investigated the patients with these lesions to clarify their clinical characteristics and therapeutic strategies and we also reviewed the literatures on the treatment principles, possible options, and outcomes. METHODS There were a total of 8 patients who were treated with traumatic intracranial pseudoaneurysms bet...