Left Internal Mammary Artery Injury Requiring Resuscitative Thoracotomy: A Case Presentation and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Review of literature of internal mammary artery injuries.

Study	Mechanism of injury	Hemodynamic	Pericardial tamponade	Massive hemothorax	Surgery	Outcome
Curley et al. (1987) [4]	Penetrating	Unstable	Early	Early	Sternotomy	Alive
Vinces (2005) [5]	Penetrating	Stable	Delayed	Delayed	Thoracotomy	Alive
Holt et al. (2005) [6]	Penetrating	Stable	Delayed	No	Sternotomy	Alive
Irgau et al. (1995) [7]	Blunt	Stable	Delayed external tamponade	No	Sternotomy	Alive
Current case	Penetrating	Unstable	Early external tamponade	Early	Thoracotomy	Alive