Diagnostic score to differentiate acute aortic dissection in the emergency room

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 986-990

  Shirakabe, Akihiro ^a,b   Hata, Noritake ^a   Yokoyama, Shinya ^a   Shinada, Takuro ^a   Suzuki, Yuuichirou ^a   Kobayasbi, Nobuaki ^a   Kikuchi, Arifumi ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a   Mizuno, Kyoichi ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Diagnosis; Emergency room; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BACK PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 45849148832     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.986     Document Type: Article

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