Multiple aortic aneurysms complicated by a rupture in the systemic lupus erythematosus: A case report

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 204, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 845-850

  Sato, Junichiro ^a   Kawakami, Tomohiro ^a   Nakabayashi, Kimimasa ^a   Fukuoka, Kazuhito ^a   Hirano, Kazuhiko ^a   Terado, Yuichi ^a   Yokoyama, Kenichi ^a   Ohtsuka, Takako ^a   Ohkura, Yasuo ^a   Fujioka, Yasunori ^a   Kurata, Atsushi ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; Cystic medial necrosis; Multiple aneurysms; Rupture; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DYSPNEA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LEUKOPENIA; MYALGIA; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 54549122447     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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