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Aortic Dissection

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A 68-year-old lady spontaneously and suddenly developed severe retrosternal pain during her holiday in Turkey. Without knowing the diagnosis, she flew home 2 days later. Computed tomography (CT) scans taken immediately after arrival revealed an aortic dissection type Stanford A.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital and Ealing Hospital, London, UK

    George Geroulakos MD, FRCS, DIC, PhD (Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer) (Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Senior Lecturer)

  2. University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Hero van Urk MD, PhD, FRCS (Professor of Vascular Surgery) (Professor of Vascular Surgery)

  3. Division of Vascular Surgery, UMDNJ-NJMS, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Robert W. Hobson II MD (Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Director) (Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Director)

  4. Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Vascular Associates, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Keith D. Calligaro MD (Chief) (Chief)

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Müller, B.T., Sandmann, W. (2003). Aortic Dissection. In: Geroulakos, G., van Urk, H., Hobson, R.W., Calligaro, K.D. (eds) Vascular Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3870-9_6

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