Surgical Removal from the Descending Aorta of a Floating Thrombus Caused by Blunt Chest Trauma

Vascular

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 846-847

  Lukacs L ^a   Lengyel, M ^a   Sitkei, E ^a   Abermann, L ^b  

^a Hungarian Institute of Cardiology   (Hungary)

^b Jahn Ferenc Del Pesti korhaz Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

aortic thrombus; arterial embolism; blunt chest trauma; transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX INJURY; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030483196     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099600400634     Document Type: Article

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