- Abdominal Impalement Injury Caused by Scaffolding Pipe following a Traffic Accident: A Case Report
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Se Youl Lee, Jeong Moon Lee, Seok Jin Choi
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J Trauma Inj. 2016;29(1):33-36. Published online March 31, 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20408/jti.2016.29.1.33
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- Traffic accidents involving agricultural machinery have been decreasing, but mortality is still high due to a lack of safety devices such as seat belts. Furthermore, secondary damage, such as abdominal impalement injury caused by loaded materials, is more likely to occur, and this type of injury leads to a poor prognosis. Impalement with pipes is often more fatal than other penetrating injuries because the diameter of the pipe is usually larger in size than other loaded materials.
We report a case of a 72-year-old man with secondary abdominal impalement injury caused by a scaffolding pipe following a traffic accident.
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- Internal Mammary Artery Injury Caused by Blunt Chest Trauma Treated with Transcatheter Arterial Embolization
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Seok Jin Choi, Tae Oh Jeong, Jae Baek Lee, Jae Chol Yoon
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J Trauma Inj. 2012;25(4):296-299.
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- The aorta is the most common major thoracic artery injured by blunt chest trauma. Injuries to major aortic arch branch arteries can also occur but are much less common than aortic injuries in the setting of blunt trauma. Although internal mammary artery (IMA) injury is uncommon and rarely diagnosed in cases of blunt chest trauma, it is one of the important sources of bleeding in chest trauma. IMA bleeding can cause ongoing blood loss and may lead to serious conditions such as extensive hemothorax, anterior mediastinal hematoma or its catastrophic complication, cardiac tamponade. However such arotic and branch artery injuries are not easily detected by plain radiograph, and are detected indirectly because of associated mediastinal hematoma.
Herein, we report a case of IMA injury caused by blunt chest trauma secondary to pedestrian traffic accident. The injured patient was successfully treated by transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE).
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