Weight Lifting and Rupture of Silent Aortic Aneurysms [4]

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2803-

  Elefteriades, John A ^a   Hatzaras, Ioannis ^a   Tranquilli, Mary Ann ^a   Elefteriades, Andrew J ^a   Stout, Robert ^a   Shaw, Richard K ^a   Silverman, David ^a   Barash, Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0345530011     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.21.2803-a     Document Type: Letter

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