| Literature DB >> 21353027 |
Gainosuke Sugiyama1, Christopher Lau, Vinay Tak, Daniel C Lee, Joshua Burack.
Abstract
Traumatic ventricular septal defect (VSD) is an uncommon occurrence in cases of penetrating cardiac injury with an incidence of only 1% to 5%. The mainstay of diagnosis of VSDs is the transthoracic echocardiogram. We report a case of an occult traumatic VSD, which was not seen on echocardiography, but was later found on a high-resolution computed tomographic scan of the chest.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21353027 DOI： 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.08.071
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Thorac Surg ISSN： 0003-4975 Impact factor: 4.330