Blunt thoracic aortic injuries: Crossing the rubicon

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 247-259

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INFUSION FLUID;

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLUNT THORACIC AORTA INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CYPRUS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXTRAVASATION; FALLING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FATALITY; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LEADERSHIP; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84857646257     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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