Ischaemic infarction masking aortic dissection: A pitfall to be avoided before thrombolysis

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 594-595

  Yeh, Ju Fen ^a,b   Po, Helen ^a   Chien, Chen Yen ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CAROTID ARTERY BRUIT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547593340     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.046904     Document Type: Article

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