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Abdominal Radiology
Published in: Abdominal Radiology 5/2018

01-05-2018 | Editorial

Guest editor’s introduction: abdominal aorta

Author: Jay P. Heiken

Published in: Abdominal Radiology | Issue 5/2018

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As abdominal radiologists, our interests are often directed to the organs of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. The aorta not only provides the blood supply to the splanchnic circulations that nourish these organs, but it is itself affected by many of the categories of disease processes that affect other abdominal organs including degeneration, inflammation, and trauma. Because of the aorta’s critical role of supplying blood to all abdominal organs, disease processes affecting the aorta often require urgent diagnosis and treatment in order to avoid end-organ compromise or death. …
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Metadata
Title
Guest editor’s introduction: abdominal aorta
Author
Jay P. Heiken
Publication date
01-05-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Abdominal Radiology / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 2366-004X
Electronic ISSN: 2366-0058
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-017-1336-8

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