Blunt aortic injury

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1708-

  Neschis, David G ^a,b   Scalea, Thomas M ^a   Flinn, William R ^a   Griffith, Bartley P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HEPARIN; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR LESION;

EID: 54049156152     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra0706159     Document Type: Review

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