Images in clinical medicine. Cardiac compression by a ruptured aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta

N Engl J Med. 2003 May 1;348(18):1776. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm010016.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / complications
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / diagnostic imaging*
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / complications
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / complications
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cardiac Tamponade / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiac Tamponade / etiology*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Hematoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Hematoma / etiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Diseases / complications
  • Mediastinal Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed