Large mobile thrombus in non-atherosclerotic thoracic aorta as the source of peripheral arterial embolism

Thrombosis Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Malyar, Nasser M ^a   Janosi, Alexander R ^a   Brkovic, Zoran ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SEROLOGY; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 29144527568     PISSN: 14779560     EISSN: 14779560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-9560-3-19     Document Type: Article

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