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2015, International Journal of Surgery Case ReportsCitation Excerpt :The use of D-dimer to diagnose acute traumatic aortic injury in patients with blunt chest trauma, to our knowledge, has not been studied or described. The classic teaching that aortic injury secondary to blunt trauma is associated with a major mechanism, significant physical findings, and abnormalities of chest radiography is not universally true [5,9,10,13]. In this patient who presented with only mild symptoms temporally associated with a traumatic event, aortic dissection was discovered in pursuit of an unrelated diagnosis using a D-dimer test.
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