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Case Reports
. 2011 Mar;91(3):908-10.
doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.08.071.

Traumatic ventricular septal defect

Gainosuke Sugiyama  1 , Christopher Lau, Vinay Tak, Daniel C Lee, Joshua Burack
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Case Reports

Traumatic ventricular septal defect

Gainosuke Sugiyama et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Mar.

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.

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