Acute Aortic Syndrome and Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury: Pictorial review of MDCT imaging

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-39

  Berger, Ferco H ^a,b   van Lienden, Krijn P ^a   Smithuis, Robin ^c   Nicolaou, Savvas ^b   van Delden, Otto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c RIJNLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aorta; CT; Dissection; Emergency; Trauma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; MULTI-DETECTORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BLUNT TRAUMATIC AORTA INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PENETRATING ATHEROSCLEROTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VASA VASORUM;

AORTIC DISEASES; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77950093696     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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