@article{ref1,
title="Acute aortic occlusion in a child secondary to lap-belt injury treated with thromboendarterectomy and primary repair",
journal="Journal of Vascular Surgery",
year="2011",
author="West, Charles A. and Johnson, Lester W. and Doucet, Linda and Shah, Mitali and Khan, Imtiaz and Heldmann, Maureen",
volume="54",
number="2",
pages="515-518",
abstract="Abdominal aortic injury as a result of blunt trauma is a rare event and has been described in few children. A 6-year-old girl presented with acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia, and a triad of acute aortic occlusion, intra-abdominal visceral injury, and a lumbar chance fracture after sustaining a seat belt injury from a motor vehicle collision. An emergency aortic thromboendarterectomy and primary repair were performed. This represents one of the few reports of acute traumatic aortic thrombosis in a child and highlights the surgical treatment of acute abdominal aortic injury in a pediatric patient.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0741-5214",
doi="10.1016/j.jvs.2010.12.031",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2010.12.031"
}