Prevalence of Dural Ectasia in Loeys-Dietz Syndrome: Comparison with Marfan Syndrome and Normal Controls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Kono, Atsushi K ^a   Higashi, Masahiro ^b   Morisaki, Hiroko ^b   Morisaki, Takayuki ^b   Naito, Hiroaki ^b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DURAL ECTASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOEYS DIETZ SYNDROME; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOEYS-DIETZ SYNDROME; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884537555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075264     Document Type: Article

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