Traumatic Type B Aortic Dissection Causing Near Total Occlusion of Aortic Lumen and Diagnosed by Transthoracic Echocardiography: A Case Report

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-82

  Turhan, Hasan ^a,b   Topaloglu, Serkan ^a,b   Cagli, Kerim ^a,b   Sasmaz, Hatice ^a,b   Kutuk, Emine ^a,b  

^a Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

^b TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA INJURY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0346059533     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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