Acute aortic dissection provoked by sneeze: A case report

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 755-757

  Baydin, A ^a   Nural, M S ^a   Guven H ^a   Deniz, T ^a   Bildik, F ^a   Karaduman, A ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE PLUS LISINOPRIL; NIFEDIPINE; SINORETIK;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNEEZING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SNEEZING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 26944488012     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.014829     Document Type: Article

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