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Twenty-five years after a blunt chest trauma, sudden expansion of a traumatic aortic aneurysm induced a dysphagia and chest pain in a 57-year-old man. Resection of the aneurysm and patch repair of the rupture site utilizing a thoracoabdominal temporary bypass was successful. The location of aortic laceration at the thoracoabdominal junction was most unusual as compared with traumatic aneurysms usually seen in the thoracic aorta.
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Okumori, M., Amino, K., Okushima, S. et al. Post-traumatic aortic rupture of the thoracoabdominal junction: A case report. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 10, 348–352 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02468799
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