Gunshot wound to the left ventricle with bullet embolization to the descending aorta: Combined endovascular and surgical management

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1012-1017

  Reil, Todd D ^a,b   Dorafshar, Amir H ^a   Lane, John S ^a   Dong, Paul ^a   Cryer, Henry G ^a   Ahn, Samuel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BULLET; CASE REPORT; DESCENDING AORTA; EMBOLISM; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SINUS RHYTHM; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTA, THORACIC; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 30044440817     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000188057.84476.28     Document Type: Article

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