How late is too late? Giant balloon-like aneurysm of the ascending aorta

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mebus, Siegrun ^a   Meierhofer, Christian ^a   Pringsheim, Milka ^a   Schoen, Patric ^a   Kaemmerer, Harald ^a   Hess, John ^a   Oberberg, Katrina ^b   Mayr, Norbert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Kaufbeuren Landsberg Fssen ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ASCENDING AORTA; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESTENOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURNER SYNDROME;

ADULT; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 81855221839     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.03.024     Document Type: Letter

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