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Open Access 01-12-2009 | Case report
Right-sided "trapdoor" incision provides necessary exposure of complex cervicothoracic vascular injury: a case report
Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine | Issue 1/2009
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Combined cervicothoracical vascular traumas are very uncommon, mostly resulting from penetrating injuries. These injuries are accompanied with very high morbidity and mortality rates. In this manuscript we present a case of hemodinamycally unstable trauma patient whose major injury was penetrating trauma of both cervical and mediastinal major vessels. The standard surgical approach of median sternotomy and neck incision was insufficient, and the patient's instability forced the authors to improvise previously not described right-sided trap-door thoracomy. Incorporation of such incision in the surgical arsenal may be very effective in selective cases