Progress in the Treatment of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury: 12-Year Single-Institution Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-71

  Estrera, Anthony L ^a   Gochnour, David C ^a   Azizzadeh, Ali ^a   Miller III, Charles C ^c   Coogan, Sheila ^a   Charlton Ouw, Kristofer ^a   Holcomb, John B ^b   Safi, Hazim J ^a  

^a Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DEATH; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC INJURIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953553831     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.03.053     Document Type: Article

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