title: Transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of a transmediastinal gunshot wound: case report.
abstract: Transesophageal echocardiography is a safe, minimally invasive imaging modality that may be useful in the evaluation of transmediastinal gunshot wounds. In this report, we describe a hemodynamically stable patient who sustained a gunshot wound to the ascending aorta. Routine diagnostic evaluation, including aortography, failed to confirm the suspected diagnosis. Transesophageal echocardiography definitively detailed the injury to the aorta enabling definitive surgical repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Denver General Hospital, Colorado.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: McIntyre
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Wiebe
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Grover
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000293:injuries*; D001027:Aortography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000293:injuries*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery