Minimal aortic injury: a lesion associated with advancing diagnostic techniques

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1042-1048

  Malhotra, Ajai K ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a   Weiman, Darryl S ^a   Gavant, Morris L ^a   Pate, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTA INTIMA; AORTOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENNESSEE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0035668883     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200112000-00003     Document Type: Article

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