Abstract:Pulmonary artery pseudo-aneurysm (PAPA) resulting from chest trauma is uncommon. Seventeen cases have been described in the literature [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]: 12 of these resulted from penetrating injuries [1,2,4,5,7,8,12,13,[15][16][17], 4 from blunt injuries [3,9,11,14], and 1 case that involved penetrating chest trauma with simultaneous pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein pseudo-aneurysm [10].In 2006, Reade et al. first described the case of blunt traumatic main PAPA, de… Show more
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