Acute medial dissection of the ascending aorta: Evolution of reactive histologic changes

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1275-1282

  Xu, Lauren ^a   Burke, Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aneurysm; aorta; cystic medial necrosis; dissection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; AORTA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTITIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS INDEX; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTITIS; APOPTOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; NEUTROPHILS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880569930     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e318294adc3     Document Type: Article

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