A 36-year-old woman sustained an aortic laceration at the level of the diaphragmatic hiatus owing to a displaced thoracolumbar spine fracture (TLS). We herein report the first case of aortic trauma secondary to a TLS fracture treated with a thoracic stent-graft.
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