Acute Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injury: Considerations and Reflections on the Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
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Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening lesion and it occurs in 10 to 30% of fatalities from blunt thoracic trauma and is the second most common cause of death after head injury. Immediate surgery is often characterized by a high mortalit... ...