Ruptured giant syphilitic aneurysm of the descending aorta in an octogenarian

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 356-357

  Bossert, Torsten ^a   Battellini, R ^a   Kotowicz, V ^a   Falk, V ^a   Gummert, J F ^a   Mohr, F W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; HUMANS; MALE; PENICILLIN G; SYPHILIS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 3242777721     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.4095_11.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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