Painless Acute Aortic Dissection Presenting as Left Lower Extremity Weakness and Numbness

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-135

  Kanjanauthai, Somsupha ^a   Kanluen, Tony ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lower extremity numbness; Lower extremity weakness; Painless acute aortic dissection

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC RUPTURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS;

EID: 63249127885     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2007.11.139     Document Type: Article

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