Evaluation of the risk of intercostal artery laceration during thoracentesis in elderly patients by using 3D-CT angiography

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 289-292

  Yoneyama, Hiroshi ^a   Arahata, Masahisa ^a   Temaru, Rie ^a   Ishizaka, Shinji ^a   Minami, Shinji ^a  

^a Nanto General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D CT angiography; Elderly; Hemothorax; Intercostal artery; Thoracentesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; LACERATION; MALE; THORACOCENTESIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LACERATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARACENTESIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RIBS; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77749236905     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.2618     Document Type: Article

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