Post-traumatic descending aorta intramural haematoma fortuitously witnessed during a magnetic resonance examination of the spine

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,e   Salamousas, Bianca Valentina ^b   Luccichenti, Giacomo ^c   Pedrazzini, Massimo ^d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c ONLUS   (Italy)

^d Ospedale di Vaio   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Incidental finding; Intramural aortic haematoma; Magnetic resonance; Spiral computed tomography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTRAMURAL AORTIC HEMATOMA; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BACK PAIN; DECELERATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 14244262269     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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