Aortic dissection: Diagnosis and follow-up with helical CT

Radiographics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-60

  Sebastià, Carmen ^a   Pallisa, Esther ^a   Quiroga, Sergi ^a   Alvarez Castells, Agustí ^a   Dominguez, Rosa ^a   Evangelista, Arturo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aorta, CT, 56.12115, 94.12915; Aorta, dissection, 56.74, 94.74; Computed tomography (CT), helical, 56.12115, 94.12915

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC RUPTURE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032615807     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.19.1.g99ja0945     Document Type: Article

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