Can we predict the site of entry tear by computed tomography in patients with acute type a aortic dissection?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 500-504

  Takami, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tajima, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kato, Wataru ^a   Fujii, Kei ^a   Hibino, Makoto ^a   Munakata, Hisaaki ^a   Uchida, Kenichiro ^a   Sakai, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SURGERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; FALSE LUMEN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 84864723709     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.21991     Document Type: Article

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