Aneurysmatic dilatation of ascending aorta in a patient with β-thalassemia and a pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like syndrome

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 596-599

  Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Vesleme, Vassiliki ^a   Papadogianni, Argiroula ^a   Tsaftaridis, Panagiotis ^a   Kapralos, Pantelis ^a   Aessopos, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Pseudoxanthoma elasticum; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BETA THALASSEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AORTA; BETA-THALASSEMIA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 4444226202     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-004-0859-6     Document Type: Article

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