title: Endovascular treatment of a traumatic thoracic aortic aneurysm initially presenting as acute critical limb ischemia.
abstract: We describe the successful endovascular treatment of a traumatic thoracic aortic aneurysm in a 32-year old male presenting with acute critical limb ischemia. The patient's condition arose from embolism growth in an aneurysmal lesion incurred seven years previously in a motorcycle accident.
authors.affiliation: Department of Angiology, Inselspital, University of Berne, Switzerland. Nicolas.Diehm@insel.ch
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Diehm
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schmidli
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Do
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Triller
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Dinkel
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*