Penetrating aortic injury left untreated for 20 days: a case report.

Alessia GiaquintaDovile MociskyteGiuseppe D'ArrigoGiuseppe BarbagalloFrancesco CertoPierfrancesco VerouxPierfrancesco Veroux

Published in: BMC surgery (2018)

We presented a very rare case of late diagnosis of aortic injury caused by a gunshot lesion, in which the particular trajectory of the bullet helped avoid immediate life-threatening bleeding and, probably, saved the patient's life.

Keyphrases

rare case
aortic valve
left ventricular
pulmonary artery
aortic dissection
case report
atrial fibrillation
coronary artery
pulmonary arterial hypertension