Traumatic bilateral carotid artery dissection following severe blunt trauma: a case report on the difficulties in diagnosis and therapy of an often overlooked life-threatening injury

BACKGROUND: Traumatic carotid artery dissections are very rare, often overlooked and life-threatening injuries. Diagnosis and treatment are difficult especially in multiple injured patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We report on a 28-year-old female major trauma patient (injury severity score, ISS 50) who...

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Autores principales: Crönlein, Moritz, Sandmann, Gunther H, Beirer, Marc, Wunderlich, Silke, Biberthaler, Peter, Huber-Wagner, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40001-015-0153-1

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