title: Traumatic laceration of a saphenous vein graft: successful surgical repair.
abstract: Traumatic laceration of a saphenous vein grafted for coronary artery bypass is extremely rare. Successful surgical repair of a laceration was performed in a 64-year-old man who developed retrosternal hematoma from a saphenous vein graft after blunt injury to the chest.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakakibara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horiba
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takenaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ida
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Obunai
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*