SUTURE BREAKAGE FOLLOWING CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY SURGERY

Authors
HAIMOV M
Citation
M. Haimov, SUTURE BREAKAGE FOLLOWING CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY SURGERY, Vascular surgery, 30(5), 1996, pp. 449-450
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Vascular surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00422835
Volume
30
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
449 - 450
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-2835(1996)30:5<449:SBFCES>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The author reports a case of suture breakage that occurred forty-eight hours after a right carotid endarterectomy was performed in a sixty-e ight-year-old man. The problem was corrected at reoperation, but the p atient died a week later with irreversible brain damage.