TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE EVALUATION OF A TRANSMEDIASTINAL GUNSHOT WOUND
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 36 (1) , 125-127
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-199401000-00023
Abstract
Transesophageal echocardiography is a safe, minimally invasive imaging modality that may be useful in the evaluation of transmediastinal gunshot wounds. In this report, we describe a hemodynamically stable patient who sustained a gunshot wound to the ascending aorta. Routine diagnostic evaluation, including aortography, failed to confirm the suspected diagnosis. Transesophageal echocardiography definitively detailed the injury to the aorta enabling definitive surgical repair.Keywords
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