Thoracic aorta imaging with multisclice CT

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 521-543

  Gotway, Michael B ^a,b   Dawn, Samuel K ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANEMIA; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA INJURY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; ATELECTASIS; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MULTISLICE COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

EID: 0038244979     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-8389(03)00035-6     Document Type: Review

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