Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm after tube thoracostomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1478-1480

  Podbielski, Francis J ^a   Wiesman, Irvin M ^a   Yaghmai, Babak ^a   Owens, Charles A ^a   Benedetti, Enrico ^a   Massad, Malek G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA;

EID: 0030827480     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00938-7     Document Type: Letter

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