Thoracic aortic aneurysm: Reading the enemy's playbook

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 366-374

  Elefteriades, John A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

AORTA; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONNECTICUT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; NOMOGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEDIGREE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 39749164391     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9398-3     Document Type: Article

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