Case 12-2004: A 38-Year-Old Woman with Acute Onset of Pain in the Chest

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 350, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  O'Gara, Patrick T ^a,b   Greenfield, Alan J ^a,b   Afridi, Nadeem A ^a,b   Houser, Stuart L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULCER; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ECHOGRAPHY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16544369177     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc049004     Document Type: Article

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