Shaggy aorta syndrome after acute arterial macroembolism: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 354-356

  Hayashida, Naoki ^a   Murayama, Hirokazu ^a   Pearce, Yoko ^a   Asano, Souichi ^a   Ohashi, Yukio ^a   Kohno, Hiroki ^a   Handa, Takemi ^a   Matsuo, Kozo ^a   Nakagawa, Yasutsugu ^a   Tatsuno, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a CHIBA CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial embolism; Enhanced computed tomography; Intravenous digital subtraction angiography; Shaggy aorta syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; AXILLOFEMORAL ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RARE DISEASE; SHAGGY AORTA SYNDROME; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THROMBECTOMY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERA;

EID: 11144355416     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2694-0     Document Type: Article

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