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Successful treatment and survival after gunshot wound to the aortic arch with bullet embolism to superficial femoral artery

Mortality after gunshot wounds to the thoracic aorta ranges from 92% to 100%. Survival is almost always in patients with injury from low-caliber, low-velocity bullets with hemorrhage contained by the wall of the aorta. Bullet embolization, even rarer with a reported incidence of 0.3% of vascular inj...

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Autores principales: Kuo, Eric C., Harding, James, Ham, Sung W., Magee, Gregory A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6606949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31309169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2019.02.012