RUPTURE OF AORTA INTO THE PULMONARY ARTERY WITH LONG SURVIVAL
Authors: Paul D. White, Francis L. Chamberlain, Saul R. Kelson
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1941)

Case Reports1 September 1941RUPTURE OF AORTA INTO THE PULMONARY ARTERY WITH LONG SURVIVALPAUL D. WHITE, M.D., F.A.C.P., FRANCIS L. CHAMBERLAIN, M.D., SAUL R. KELSON, M.D.PAUL D. WHITE, M.D., F.A.C.P., FRANCIS L. CHAMBERLAIN, M.D., SAUL R. KELSON, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-15-3-589 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptCASE REPORTJoseph Meranda, negro, 74 years old at death in 1938, a Cape Cod cranberry picker, entered the Massachusetts General Hospital in November 1933, in his seventieth year, because of ulcers of the right leg following varicose veins and an infected scratch of a year before. 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