Surgical Options to Contend with Thoracic Aortic Pathology

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-51

  Parsa, Cyrus J ^a   Hughes, G Chad ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC AORTA DISSECTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57049188368     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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