Thoracic aortic aneurysm: Reading the enemy's playbook

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 175-186

  Elefteriades, John A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE;

AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MARFAN SYNDROME; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROGNOSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 58149097372     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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