A pictorial review of acute aortic syndrome: Discriminating and overlapping features as revealed by ECG-gated multidetector-row CT angiography

Insights into Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 561-571

  Ueda, Takuya ^a   Chin, Anne ^b   Petrovitch, Ivan ^c   Fleischmann, Dominik ^d  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Northern Virginia Radiology Consultants PLLC   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aortic aneurysm; Aortic diseases; Aortic dissection; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874199200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18694101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13244-012-0195-7     Document Type: Review

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