Repair of traumatic aortic valve disruption and descending aortic transection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1251-1253

  Girardi, Leonard ^a   Isom, O Wayne ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA INJURY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; DECELERATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034013240     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01454-X     Document Type: Article

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