Trap-Door Incision for Penetrating Thoracic Trauma: An Obsolete Approach?

Autor: Dolores Perez-Diaz, Leire Zarain Obrador, Ana Fábregues Olea, Fernando Turégano Fuentes
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Case Reports in Surgery, Vol 2014 (2014)
Case Reports in Surgery
ISSN: 2090-6919
2090-6900
Popis: Penetrating injuries to the subclavian vessels are uncommon and very severe lesions. They are difficult to expose and carry a high mortality. “Trap-door” incisions have lately been dismissed as too mutilating for the occasional victim of a penetrating thoracic trauma with massive bleeding difficult that is to expose. We present a case of severe bleeding from a stab wound in the left subclavicular area in a heavy-built patient where a “trap-door” incision proved inevitable to expose and repair the injury, and most probably saved his life.
Databáze: OpenAIRE