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Thoracic Vascular Injuries: Techniques

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Thoracic great vessel injuries, while rare, are highly lethal. This chapter will discuss the evaluation of patients with these injuries, operative exposure and intraoperative techniques, and complications of these challenging injuries.

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    Benjamin J. Moran, Katherine Marie Kelley & James V. O’Connor

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Moran, B.J., Kelley, K.M., O’Connor, J.V. (2021). Thoracic Vascular Injuries: Techniques. In: Scalea, T.M. (eds) The Shock Trauma Manual of Operative Techniques. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27596-9_17

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