Images in medicine: Spontaneous aortocaval fistula complicating abdominal aortic aneurysm
Aortocaval fistula represents a rare, life-threatening complication of abdominal aortic aneurysm that needs emergency surgical treatment. The presentation couples that of a rupturing aneurysm with other more characteristic features resulting from the massive arteriovenous shunt. Early recognition an...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2014-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock |
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Online Access: | http://www.onlinejets.org/article.asp?issn=0974-2700;year=2014;volume=7;issue=2;spage=129;epage=130;aulast=Tonolini |