Initial experiences in management of blunt aortic injury taking associated brain injury into consideration

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-201

  Kurimoto, Yoshihiko ^a   Morishita, Kiyofumi ^a   Kawaharada, Nobuyoshi ^a   Fukada, Johji ^a   Hachiro, Yoshikazu ^a   Fujisawa, Yasuaki ^a   Saitoh, Tatsuya ^a   Yama, Naoya ^a   Hase, Mamoru ^a   Narimatsu, Eichi ^a   Asai, Yasufumi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt aortic injury; Brain injury; Open surgery; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 31644432584     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.198     Document Type: Article

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