Diagnosis and treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injuries: Changing perspectives

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1415-1419

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a,b   Velmahos, George C ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^a   Karmy Jones, Riyad ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G ^a   Hemmila, Mark R ^a   O'Connor, James V ^a   McKenney, Mark O ^a   Moore, Forrest O ^a   London, Jason ^a   Singh, Michael J ^a   Spaniolas, Konstantinos ^a   Keel, Marius ^a   Sugrue, Michael ^a   Wahl, Wendy L ^a   Hill, Jonathan ^a   Wall, Mathew J ^a   Moore, Ernest E ^a   Lineen, Edward ^a   Margulies, Daniel ^a   Malka, Valerie ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a   more..

^a AAST Multi Institutional Thoracic Aortic Injury Study Group   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma studies; Blunt thoracic aortic injuries; Changing perspectives

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY DELAY; THERAPY EFFECT; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX INJURY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURIES; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; METHODS; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67650317664     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181715e32     Document Type: Article

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