Advances in the management of blunt thoracic aortic injury: Parmley to the present

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 273-278

  Fabian, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ESMOLOL; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; LABETALOL; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; ENDOLEAK; ENDOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; THERAPY DELAY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISEASE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; RUPTURE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX INJURY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; RUPTURE; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 65549146356     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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