Spontaneous dissection of the celiac artery: A pitfall in the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. presentation of two cases

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1223-1227

  Fenoglio, Luigi ^a   Allione, Attilio ^a   Scalabrino, Elisa ^a   Alberto, Gianfrancesco ^a   Benedetti, Valentina ^a   Pomero, Fulvio ^a   Valpreda, Susanna ^a   Morin, Mario ^a   Perin, Paolo Cavallo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

abdominal pain; celiac artery dissection; spontaneous; visceral aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INFARCTION; TACHYCARDIA;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CELIAC ARTERY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4444228465     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000037816.57229.6f     Document Type: Article

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