Painless, acute aortic dissection presenting as an acute stroke

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1129-1131

  Baydin, Ahmet ^a   Nargis, Cemil ^a   Nural, M Selim ^a   Aygun, Dursun ^a   Karatas, Aydin Deniz ^a   Bahcivan, Muzaffer ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Painless aortic dissection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STROKE; SYMPTOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33847714781     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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