TRAUMATIC AORTIC DISRUPTION - FALSE-POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS ON TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

Authors
OXORN D TOWERS M
Citation
D. Oxorn et M. Towers, TRAUMATIC AORTIC DISRUPTION - FALSE-POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS ON TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 39(2), 1995, pp. 386-387
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
39
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
386 - 387
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
A case is described in which there was a high index of suspicion for t raumatic aortic disruption, Because angiography was equivocal, transes ophageal echocardiography was performed, and interpreted as showing a noncircumferential aortic tear, At thoracotomy, however, no tear was s een, The false positive interpretation was caused by a crescent-shaped atherosclerotic plaque.