Katz D S, Groskin S A
Department of Radiology, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210.
J Thorac Imaging. 1993 Spring;8(2):156-8. doi: 10.1097/00005382-199321000-00009.
Traumatic laceration of the pulmonary artery is rare and is associated with a high mortality rate. The article describes a patient with pulmonary artery laceration from blunt chest trauma who presented with tension pneumothorax. Potentially life-threatening intrathoracic bleeding was not apparent until the pneumothorax was decompressed.
