Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with a situs inversus totalis: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-252

  Kimura, Naoyuki ^a   Kawahito, Koji ^a   Ito, Satoshi ^a  

^a Itabashi Chuo Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Rupture; Situs inversus totalis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SITUS INVERSUS TOTALIS; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMORBIDITY; DEXTROCARDIA; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; THORACOTOMY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 40149102493     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3616-3     Document Type: Article

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