Penetrating paediatric neck trauma

Penetrating injuries to the internal carotid artery are infrequent but potentially devastating and can be a significant challenge to the operating surgeon. In this article, we present a case of an 11-year-old girl who suffered a serious vascular injury when she fell on a pencil. We also discuss the...

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Autores principales: Abdelmasih, Monica, Kayssi, Ahmed, Roche-Nagle, Graham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6536251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31092488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-226436
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description Penetrating injuries to the internal carotid artery are infrequent but potentially devastating and can be a significant challenge to the operating surgeon. In this article, we present a case of an 11-year-old girl who suffered a serious vascular injury when she fell on a pencil. We also discuss the most up-to-date recommendations concerning the management of zone II injuries to the neck of a paediatric patient.
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spelling pubmed-65362512019-06-12 Penetrating paediatric neck trauma Abdelmasih, Monica Kayssi, Ahmed Roche-Nagle, Graham BMJ Case Rep Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson Penetrating injuries to the internal carotid artery are infrequent but potentially devastating and can be a significant challenge to the operating surgeon. In this article, we present a case of an 11-year-old girl who suffered a serious vascular injury when she fell on a pencil. We also discuss the most up-to-date recommendations concerning the management of zone II injuries to the neck of a paediatric patient. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6536251/ /pubmed/31092488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-226436 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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