Traumatic laceration of a saphenous vein graft: successful surgical repair |
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| Authors: | A Harada T Sakakibara K Horiba H Takenaka T Ida Y Obunai |
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| Affiliation: | Division of Cardiac Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | Traumatic laceration of a saphenous vein grafted for coronary artery bypass is extremely rare. Successful surgical repair of a laceration was performed in a 64-year-old man who developed retrosternal hematoma from a saphenous vein graft after blunt injury to the chest. |
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