Acute aortic dissection with painless paraplegia: report of 2 cases

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 631.e3-631.e5

  Aktas, Can ^a   Cinar, Orhan ^b   Ay, Didem ^a   Gürses, Bengi ^a   Hasmanoglu, Hakan ^b  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE AORTA DISSECTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAINLESS PARAPLEGIA; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON REFLEX;

EID: 44449161390     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2007.09.020     Document Type: Article

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