suprasternal

Updated: May 18, 2025

Wounds of the aorta are almost invariably fatal, although cases are recorded by Pelletan, Heil, Legouest, and others, in which patients survived such wounds for from two months to several years. Green mentions a case of stab-wound in the suprasternal fossa.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine