Endovascular treatment of traumatic dissection of the thoracic aorta - series of 16 cases.

4 , 5 Analysis of a sample of 3,774 patients who had suffered blunt thoracic aortic injury over a 10 year period revealed a significant trend for reduced use of conventional surgery and an increasing tendency to choose endovascular techniques, in addition to a 50% reduction in mortality among patients treated with these techniques. 5 DuBose et al. 4 conducted a multicenter study with 382 patients with aortic injuries caused by thoracic contusion managed with one of three approaches: conservative, open surgery, or endovascular treatment with aortic endografts.

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