Successful treatment and survival after gunshot wound to the aortic arch with bullet embolism to superficial femoral artery

Mortality after gunshot wounds to the thoracic aorta ranges from 92% to 100%. Survival is almost always in patients with injury from low-caliber, low-velocity bullets with hemorrhage contained by the wall of the aorta. Bullet embolization, even rarer with a reported incidence of 0.3% of vascular inj...

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Main Authors: Eric C. Kuo, MD, James Harding, BS, Sung W. Ham, MD, Gregory A. Magee, MD, MSc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468428719300334