Traumatic aortic transection

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-38

  Zissimopoulos, Iraklis ^a,b   Tsoukas, Athanasios ^a   Koliandris, Ioannis ^a   Christakos, Stamatios ^a  

^a Asclepion Voulas Hospital   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic injury; Aortography; Blunt thoracic trauma; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TRAUMATIC AORTIC SYNDROME; ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTA SURGERY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 13244288177     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.04005.x     Document Type: Article

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