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Case Reports
. 2010 Aug;20(8):1856-8.
doi: 10.1007/s00330-010-1748-0. Epub 2010 Mar 20.

A case report of a normal aorta misdiagnosed as type A dissection by modern multidetector computed tomography

M C K Hamilton  1 , A K Nightingale, S Masey, A G Stuart, G Angelini, R Hopkins, G McGann
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A case report of a normal aorta misdiagnosed as type A dissection by modern multidetector computed tomography

M C K Hamilton et al. Eur Radiol. 2010 Aug.

Abstract

Computed tomography (CT) is generally considered the investigation of choice to exclude acute aortic syndrome. We report an important potentially disastrous misdiagnosis using a modern 32 slice multidetector CT system.

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