title: Successful treatment of a posttraumatic pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm with coil embolization.
abstract: A 29-year-old man presented to the emergency department after having been stabbed in the posterior right hemithorax twice. He underwent thoracotomy for hemodynamic instability and continuous bleeding. His postoperative recovery was complicated by the incidental finding of a posttraumatic pseudoaneurysm of the pulmonary artery. We describe successful coil embolization of the aneurysmal sac avoiding any further surgical intervention.
authors.affiliation: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dimarakis
authors.forename: James A C
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Thorpe
authors.forename: Kostas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Papagiannopoulos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000293:injuries*; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications