Chest Teaching
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CT image
through the upper chest shows increased soft tissue density around
the ascending and descending aorta compatible with hematoma. In
the descending aorta, there is a faint line in the lumen posterolaterally
compatible with a tear in the aortic wall. This line correlates
with the cleft seen in the aortic wall contour on the digital
angiogram below.
