TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Seat belt aortic dissection: a case report JO - Curēus A1 - Ahmed, Mohamed A1 - Mahmoud, Ahmed A1 - Samotowka, Michael A1 - Mitchell, Kristofer A1 - Saeed, Rasha SP - e4662 EP - e4662 VL - 11 IS - 5 N2 - Eighteen-year-old restrained male driver involved in a flip over motor vehicle accident resulting in a seatbelt injury triad ( rectus abdominis muscle disruption, injury to the sigmoid colon and infra-renal aortic dissection). The patient did well after the surgical resection of the sigmoid colon, repair of the rectus abdominis muscle and endovascular repair of the aorta. Our objective is to shed light on this potentially fatal injury.
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LA - en SN - 2168-8184 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4662 ID - ref1 ER -