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Aortic aneurism is a time bomb that has consigned countless victims to the corridors of ERs over the years, and to CT rooms in recent times. Defusing this bomb has been possible from around 1982, in the routine examination of any thoracoabdominal pain, since excellent 40-cm wide machines with wheels became available at this time. A few seconds were usually sufficient, beginning by the abdominal aorta.
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Lichtenstein, D.A. (2010). Aorta. In: Whole Body Ultrasonography in the Critically Ill. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05328-3_11
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