title: [Treatment of traumatic false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta with stent graft].
abstract: The treatment of traumatic false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta by endovascular stent graft may have advantages over conventional surgery. This is a case study of two women suffering from false aneurysm of the thoracic aorta caused in one by a knife injury and in the other by a car accident. After the patients became hemodynamically stable, a commercially available endothelial stent graft (Talent, Gor) was deployed. Recovery was rapid in the first patient. The second patient required emergency laparotomy for venous bleeding one day after stent placement; she died two weeks later, mainly from organ failure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Endovascular techniques can be used in selected cases to treat thoracic false aneurysms thereby avoiding the complexity and morbidity of conventional surgery.
authors: Department of Vascular Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Avrahami
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Noyman-Levine
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Haddad
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Koren
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Dahan
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Sivak
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Zelikovski
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014951:Wounds, Stab