Postoperative rupture of the right ventricular free wall with transthoracic leak: Multidetector CT findings

Leo P. Lawler; Elliot K. Fishman

doi:10.1097/00004728-200107000-00011

Postoperative rupture of the right ventricular free wall with transthoracic leak: Multidetector CT findings

Leo P. Lawler, Elliot K. Fishman

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Right ventricular free-wall rupture may complicate sternal-splitting operations but may be clinically occult. Awareness of this entity and the CT imaging features may help avert a potentially catastrophic outcome.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	574-576
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of computer assisted tomography
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-200107000-00011
State	Published - 2001

Keywords

Cardiac rupture
Computed tomography

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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Postoperative rupture of the right ventricular free wall with transthoracic leak: Multidetector CT findings

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