Computed tomography of aortic wall calcifications in aortic dissection patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  De Jong, Pim A ^a   Hellings, Willem E ^a   Takx, Richard A P ^a   Išgum, Ivana ^b   Van Herwaarden, Joost A ^a   Mali, Willem P Th M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUNICA MEDIA; AORTA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; INTIMA; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84903896099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102036     Document Type: Article

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