Surgical Management of Undiagnosed Laceration of Superior Vena Cava Caused by Blunt Trauma Nadia Bouabdallaoui, MD, Hassan Debbagh, MD, Thibaut Schoell, MD, Guillaume Lebreton, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages 1972-1974 (May 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.07.040 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Initial CT-scan showing insignificant pericardial effusion (white arrow). (B) Surgical view focusing on great vessels showing a misdiagnosed 2-cm laceration of the superior vena cava at the atriocaval junction as the source of hemorrhage (black arrow). (C) Surgical view focusing on great vessels showing surgical repair of the superior vena cava laceration (black arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 101, 1972-1974DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.07.040) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions