Diagnosing traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 414-419

  O'Conor, C E ^a  

^a NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3242813785     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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