Painless left hemorrhagic pleural effusion: An unusual presentation of dissecting ascending aortic aneurysm

Chest

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1478-1480

  Little, Stephen ^a   Johnson, John ^a   Moon, Be Yung ^a   Mehta, Sanjay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Aortic dissection; Bicuspid aortic valve; Hemorrhagic effusion; Pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032725903     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.116.5.1478     Document Type: Article

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