Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta during the second trimester of pregnancy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1541-1543

  Lemermeyer, Gillian ^a   Talwar, Manoj K ^a   Mullen, John C ^a,b   Klassen, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA;

EID: 0029874227     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)01179-X     Document Type: Article

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