A double abdominal aorta with a double inferior vena cava: A human congenital vascular patterning defect

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 586-589

  Kayhan, Arda ^a   Collins, Jack ^a   Al Sadir, Jafar ^a   Zhu, Fang ^a   Oto, Aytekin ^a   Svensson, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic vascular smooth muscle; Dorsal aortae fusion; Double abdominal aorta; Double inferior vena cava

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANEURYSM; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY; DIAPHRAGM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; LUMBAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VERTEBRA;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BODY PATTERNING; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 79958095975     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20814     Document Type: Article

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