Blunt thoracic aortic injury

American Surgeon

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1033-1037

  Benjamin, Elizabeth R ^a   Tillou, Areti ^a   Hiatt, Jonathan R ^a   Cryer, H Gill ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; LIMB FRACTURE; MALE; SURVIVOR; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 55949123343     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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