title: Main pulmonary artery laceration after blunt trauma: accurate preoperative diagnosis.
abstract: Blunt chest trauma is associated with a variety of lethal injuries, many of which are responsible for prehospital mortality. Major intrathoracic vascular injury accounts for a vast majority of these fatal injuries. Patients surviving after main pulmonary artery injury are rare. We present the case of a patient who sustained a main pulmonary artery laceration as a result of a blunt motor vehicle crash. He was diagnosed accurately by computed tomography and underwent successful repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, New York 11554, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ambrose
authors.forename: L O
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Barrett
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Angus
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Absi
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Shaftan
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*