The Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection by Noninvasive Imaging Procedures

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 1-9

  Nienaber, Christoph A ^a   Von Kodolitsch, Yskert ^a   Nicolas, Volkmar ^a   Siglow, Volker ^a   Piepho, Angela ^a   Brockhoff, Carsten ^a   Koschyk, Dietmar H ^a   Spielmann, Rolf P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0027397484     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199301073280101     Document Type: Article

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