Surgical treatment of systemic atheroembolism from the thoracic aorta

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1389-1393

  Bojar, Robert M ^a   Payne, Douglas D ^a   Murphy, Richard E ^a   Schwarte, Steven L ^a   Belden, John R ^a   Caplan, Louis R ^a   Rastegar, Hassan ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030005862     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00084-7     Document Type: Article

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