Innocent bystander? Intraluminal thrombus in abdominal aortic aneurysm

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-286

  Yoshimura, Koichi ^a,b   Ikeda, Yasuhiro ^a   Aoki, Hiroki ^c  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Protease; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE B; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA WALL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRALUMINAL THROMBUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THROMBUS; AORTA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; MEDIATOR RELEASE; TENSILE STRENGTH; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80053277594     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.06.027     Document Type: Note

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