Atypical presentation of dissection of the ascending aorta in young men with cystic medial necrosis: MR findings

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 289-294

  Krinsky, Glenn A ^a   Lee, Vivian S ^a   Rofsky, Neil M ^a   Roy, Marie Christine ^a   Colvin, Steven ^b   Galloway, Aubrey ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography aortic; Aorta magnetic resonance; Dissection cystic; Medial necrosis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CYSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NECROSIS;

EID: 0033369507     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(99)00154-0     Document Type: Article

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