Brucellosis: An exceptional cause of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms;Brucelosis: Una causa excepcional de aneurismas aorticos toracico y abdominal

Medicina Intensiva

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 216-218

  Pelaez Fernandez J ^a,b   Sanchez Galindo M I ^a   Del Moral Gonzalez B ^a   Pallares Fernandez J M ^a   Espiga Gomez Lobo L ^a   Cerdeno Impuesto Y V ^a  

^a Hospital de Madrid   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Brucellosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; DESCENDING AORTA; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0032806233     PISSN: 02105691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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