Traumatic deceleration injury of the thoracic aorta

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 697-704

  Kerut, Edmund Kenneth ^a,b   Kelley, Glenn ^a   Falco, Vivian Carina ^a   Ovella, Ty ^a   Diethelm, Lisa ^a   Helmcke, Frederick ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEART CLINIC OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Deceleration; Multislice computed tomography; Transection; Transesophageal echocardiography; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; ECHOGRAPHY; INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; HUMANS; MALE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33644646520     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.40150.x     Document Type: Article

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