title: Endovascular stent graft repair of a thoracic aortic gunshot injury.
abstract: Endovascular treatment approaches offer minimally invasive alternative strategies for the management of vascular injuries. While endovascular stent graft repair of blunt injury to the thoracic aorta is well described, there are few reports of its application for treatment of penetrating injuries of the thoracic aorta. We report the successful treatment of a through-and-through gunshot injury of the thoracic aorta and review how this technology may be applied for the treatment of penetrating thoracic aortic injury.
authors.affiliation: Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors.forename: Z K
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Baldwin
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bullard
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*