Concurrent pulmonary arterial dissection and saccular aneurysm associated with primary pulmonary hypertension

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-312

  Masuda, Shigeru ^a,c   Ishii, Toshiharu ^b   Asuwa, Noriko ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a   Kiguchi, Hideko ^a   Uchiyama, Takashi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HACHIOJI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG RESISTANCE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SACCULAR ANEURYSM;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 0029870725     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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