Acute traumatic injury of the distal descending aorta associated with thoracic spine injury

European Radiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-62

  Murakami, R ^a   Tajima, H ^b   Ichikawa, K ^a   Kobayashi, Y ^a   Sugizaki, K ^a   Yamamoto, K ^a   Kurokawa, A ^a   Kumazaki, T ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Aortic injury; CT; Thoracic spine fracture

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031613278     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300050339     Document Type: Article

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