Spiral CT in acute non-cardiac chest pain

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-45

  Oliver, T B ^a,c   Murchison, J T ^a   Reid, J H ^b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BORDERS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Chest pain; Differential diagnosis; Haematoma; Spinal CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX PAIN; ULCER;

EID: 0032945232     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9260(99)91238-2     Document Type: Article

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