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- Title
Chest Radiograph in the Acute Traumatic Rupture of the Aorta.
- Authors
Pinterits, Fritz; Grabenwoeger, Florian; Dock, Wolfgang; Metz, Viktor; Appel, Wolfgang
- Abstract
The authors tried to determine the validity of sixteen well-known signs indicating an acute traumatic rupture of the aorta on plain chest radiographs of 22 patients. Angiographically 11 of the patients had a tear at the aortic isthmus. It turned out that seven of the sixteen signs (widened mediastinum, loss of the aortic knob contour, opacification of the aorto-pulmonary window, bulging of the vascular pedicle predominantly to the left, left apical cap, depression of the left main stem bronchus, and displacement of the right paraspinous interspace) are of great diagnostic value.
- Subjects
INTRACRANIAL aneurysm ruptures; AORTA; ARTERIES; BLOOD circulation; CHEST (Anatomy)
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1989, Vol 23, Issue 2, p122
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857448902300206