Diagnostic Imaging Pathways - Spontaneous Aortic Dissection

References

1. Coulam CH, Rubin GD. Acute aortic abnormalities. Seminars in Roentgenology 2001;36(2):148-64. (Review article)
2. Sommer T, Fehske W, Holzknecht N, et al. Aortic dissection: a comparative study of diagnosis with spiral CT, multiplanar transoesophageal echocardiography, and MR imaging. Radiology 1996;199:347-52. (Level II/III evidence)
3. Oliver TB, Murchison JT, Reid JH, et al. Spiral CT in acute non-cardiac chest pain. Clinical Radiology 1999;54:38-45. (Level III evidence)
4. Nienaber CA, von Kodolitsch Y, Nicolas V, et al. The diagnosis of thoracic aortic dissection by noninvasive imaging procedures. NEJM 1993;328(1):1-9. (Level II evidence). Click here to view reference
5. Erbel R, Alfonso F, Boileau C, et al. Diagnosis and management of aortic dissection. Recommendations of the task force on aortic dissection, European Society of Cardiology. European Heart Journal 2001;22:1642-81.
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7. Choi SH, Choi SJ, Kim JH, et al. Useful CT findings for predicting the progression of aortic intramural hematoma to overt aortic dissection. J Computer Assisted Tomography 2001;25(2):295-9. (Level III evidence)
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Further Reading

1. Sebastia C, Pallisa E, Quiroga S, et al. Aortic dissection: diagnosis and follow-up with helical CT. Radiographics 1999;19:45-60.
2. Ciagarroa JE, Isselbacher EM, DeSanctis RW, et al. Diagnostic imaging in the evaluation of suspected aortic dissection. NEJM 1993;328:35-43.

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