Perspectives on diseases of the thoracic aorta

Advances in Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2005, Pages 75-86

  Elefteriades, John A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; DECISION MAKING; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MARFAN SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MARFAN SYNDROME; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 4344571746     PISSN: 00652326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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