Intramural haematoma of the thoracic aorta: Who's to be alerted the cardiologist or the cardiac surgeon?

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 54-

  Baikoussis, Nikolaos G ^a,b   Apostolakis, Efstratios E ^a   Siminelakis, Stavros N ^b   Papadopoulos, Georgios S ^b   Goudevenos, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AORTA DISEASE; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX SURGERY;

ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CARDIOLOGY; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC SURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449482037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-4-54     Document Type: Review

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