Thoracic Aorta Injuries: Management and Outcome of 144 Patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 547-555

  Hunt, John P ^a   Baker, Christopher C ^a   Lentz, Christopher W ^a   Rutledge, Robert R ^a   Oller, Dale W ^b   Flowe, Kenneth M ^c   Nayduch, Donna A ^d   Smith, Charles ^h   Clancy, Thomas V ^e   Thomason, Michael H ^f   Meredith, J Wayne ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKEMED HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^c East Carolina Medical Center   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Coastal AHEC Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^f CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h Burnett Womack Clin Sci Building ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0029986569     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199604000-00005     Document Type: Article

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