Pc. Ferrera et Pa. Ghaemmaghami, DUCTUS DIVERTICULUM INTERPRETED AS TRAUMATIC AORTIC INJURY, The American journal of emergency medicine, 15(4), 1997, pp. 371-372
A 50 year-old woman was the victim of a motor vehicle accident. An aor
togram obtained for suspicion of an aortic injury was interpreted as a
n intimal disruption at the level of the aortic isthmus, At thoracotom
y the patient was found to have only a ductus diverticulum, A brief di
scussion of the angiographic appearance of a ductus diverticulum and i
ts significance in the setting of trauma is presented. Copyright (C) 1
997 by W.B. Saunders Company.