Clinical significance of pleural effusion in acute aortic dissection

Chest

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 825-830

  Hata, Noritake ^a   Tanaka, Keiji ^a   Imaizumi, Takahiro ^a   Ohara, Toshihiko ^a   Ohba, Takayoshi ^a   Shinada, Takurou ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; CT; Inflammatory reaction; Pathogenesis; Pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0036211146     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.121.3.825     Document Type: Article

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