Transesophageal echocardiography after contrast-enhanced CT angiography in the diagnosis of type A aortic dissection

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 495-500

  Gologorsky, Edward ^a   Karras, Riny ^a   Gologorsky, Angela ^b   Ricci, Marco ^a   Salerno, Tomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; STAB WOUND; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053349258     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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