Primary Suture of Eroded Innominate Artery
Abstract
Abstract To the Editor.—The August 1972, issue of the Archives included the paper we presented at the Central Surgical Association reporting cases of tracheal innominate artery fistula.1 We cited three reported cases of survival of this catastrophe, published in English, in the American literature, the earliest in 1968. However, one of the members of our clinic, Dr. Michel Roy, published a previous report in French in 1962,2 which makes it the first case of survival of this complication...