Operative treatment of aneurysms of the thoracic aorta due to cystic medial necrosis

Idiopathic Cystic Medial Necrosis of the Aorta.

Healed dissecting aneurysm in cystic medial necrosis of the aorta.

DISSECTING aneurysm of the aorta has long been recognized as a disease entity, and is ordinarily regarded as a rapidly fatal condition. A certain proportion of dissecting aneurysms redissect into the lumen of the aorta, forming the so-called "double-barreled" aorta. Occasional cases of dissecting aneurysm have survived for a considerable period after the acute episode, many of them being of the...

[Aneurysms of the thoracic aorta].

The purpose of this paper is to review the natural history, surgical management, and clinical and radiographic features of aneurysm of the aorta above the diaphragm. Experience is limited to 40 patients, of whom only nine were women. An operation, the aim of which was to resect the aneurysm, was undertaken in 14 patients; three of these died in the early postoperative period and the others are ...

The rupture of descending thoracic aorta due to the necrosis of aortic intimal sarcoma.

Aortic intimal sarcoma is rare and the prognosis is very poor. We experienced a case of ruptured aortic intimal sarcoma in the descending aorta. A 69-year-old man underwent an emergency operation for the rupture of descending aorta. The postoperative course was uneventful. The histological examination of aortic wall showed aortic intimal sarcoma. The patient developed a local recurrence and abd...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...