Blunt traumatic injury of the ascending aorta: Multidetector CT findings in two cases

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 217-221

  Steenburg, Scott D ^a   Ravenel, James G ^a   Ikonomidis, John S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTA ROOT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33846156514     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-006-0538-0     Document Type: Article

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