MRI postoperative monitoring in patients surgically treated for aortic dissection

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1149-1156

  Di Cesare, Ernesto ^a   Costanzi, Antonella ^a   Fedele, Francesco ^b   Di Renzi, Paolo ^b   D'Eusanio, Giuseppe ^c   Lupattelli, Luciano ^a   Passariello, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Hospital of Teramo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Aortic; Dissection; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0030437105     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(96)00221-4     Document Type: Article

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