Easily missed? Acute aortic dissection

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7818, 2011, Pages

  Ranasinghe, Aaron M ^a,b   Strong, Daniel ^c   Boland, Barry ^a   Bonser, Robert S ^a,b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AORTA ANEURYSM; BACKACHE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BACK PAIN; CHEST PAIN; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84859008248     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d4487     Document Type: Article

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