Motor Vehicle Collision Patient with Simultaneous Duodenal Transection and Thoracic Aorta Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Blunt polytrauma can present complex management decisions. Here we report the case of a 31-year-old male involved in a high speed motor vehicle collision resulting in both duodenal and thoracic aorta injury that was managed collaboratively between the trauma, vascular, and cardiothoracic surgical te...

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Autores principales: Chen, Charlie, Schuster, Kevin, Bhattacharya, Bishwajit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25688322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/519836
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description Blunt polytrauma can present complex management decisions. Here we report the case of a 31-year-old male involved in a high speed motor vehicle collision resulting in both duodenal and thoracic aorta injury that was managed collaboratively between the trauma, vascular, and cardiothoracic surgical teams. The patient went on to a full recovery. We also review the management of such injuries which has evolved over the past two decades resulting in less morbidity and mortality.
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spelling pubmed-43218492015-02-16 Motor Vehicle Collision Patient with Simultaneous Duodenal Transection and Thoracic Aorta Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Chen, Charlie Schuster, Kevin Bhattacharya, Bishwajit Case Rep Surg Case Report Blunt polytrauma can present complex management decisions. Here we report the case of a 31-year-old male involved in a high speed motor vehicle collision resulting in both duodenal and thoracic aorta injury that was managed collaboratively between the trauma, vascular, and cardiothoracic surgical teams. The patient went on to a full recovery. We also review the management of such injuries which has evolved over the past two decades resulting in less morbidity and mortality. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4321849/ /pubmed/25688322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/519836 Text en Copyright © 2015 Charlie Chen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Motor Vehicle Collision Patient with Simultaneous Duodenal Transection and Thoracic Aorta Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort motor vehicle collision patient with simultaneous duodenal transection and thoracic aorta injury: a case report and review of the literature
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/519836
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