A novel model of blunt thoracic aortic injury: A mechanism confirmed?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 923-931

  Schmoker, Joseph D ^a,b   Lee, Christopher H ^a   Taylor, Richard G ^a   Chung, Arnold ^a   Trombley, Lucy ^a   Hardin, Nicholas ^a   Russell, Sheila R ^a   Howard, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Aorta; Blunt injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THORACIC AORTA;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; THORACIC INJURIES; TUNICA INTIMA; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 42049104558     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318163ad36     Document Type: Article

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