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Blunt thoracic aortic injury – concepts and management

BACKGROUND: Blunt thoracic aortic injury, a life-threatening concern, remains the second most common cause of mortality among all non-penetrating traumatic injuries, second only to intracranial hemorrhage. Kinetic forces from the rapid deceleration are the impetus for the injury mechanism and are gr...

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Autores principales: Mouawad, Nicolas J., Paulisin, Joseph, Hofmeister, Stephen, Thomas, Matthew B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7169033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32307000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01101-6