[CT in the study of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at the moment of rupture and complicated by left hemothorax].

The diagnostic capacity of computed tomography in a rupture of a thoracic aorta aneurysm complicated by hemothorax is examined. Both the case examined and reports in the literature show the greatest importance and utility of CT for correct emergency diagnosis, in high risk patients, when other systems cannot be used in the first instance.