DISSECTING ANEURYSM OF THE AORTA:
Authors: PAUL DAVID
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1947)

Article1 September 1947DISSECTING ANEURYSM OF THE AORTA:A REVIEW OF 17 AUTOPSIED CASES OF ACUTE DISSECTING ANEURYSM OF THE AORTA ENCOUNTERED AT THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL FROM 1937 TO 1946 INCLUSIVE, EIGHT OF WHICH WERE CORRECTLY DIAGNOSED ANTE MORTEM*PAUL DAVID, M.D., EDGAR M. MCPEAK, M.D., F.A.C.P., ENRIQUE VIVAS-SALAS, M.D., PAUL D. WHITE, M.D., F.A.C.P.PAUL DAVID, M.D., EDGAR M. MCPEAK, M.D., F.A.C.P., ENRIQUE VIVAS-SALAS, M.D., PAUL D. WHITE, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-27-3-405 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1937 Glendy, Castleman, and White1presented a clinical and anatomical analysis of 19 cases of dissecting aneurysm of the aorta which had come to autopsy at the Massachusetts General Hospital over the period of 1897 to 1936, inclusive. In 13 of this number the dissection could be described as acute or directly related to the death of the patient, while in six it was discovered incidentally, the patient having died of other causes. In only two of the 13 acute cases had a correct antemortem diagnosis of dissecting aneurysm been established, and yet the authors felt that the clinical...Bibliography1. GLENDYCASTLEMANWHITE REBPD: Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, Am. Heart Jr., 1937, xiii, 129. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. SHENNAN T: Dissecting aneurysms, 1934, H. M. Stationery Office, London. Google Scholar3. SAILER S: Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, Arch. Path., 1942, xxxiii, 704. Google Scholar4. LEITCH WH: Dissecting aneurysm, Bull. School Med., Univ. Maryland, 1944, xxix, 7. Google Scholar5. Clinicopathological Cases: New England Jr. Med., Case 25382, 1939, ccxxi, 471. Google Scholar6. Ibid., Case 26341, 1940, ccxxiii, 294. Google Scholar7. Ibid., Case 28072, 1942, ccxxvi, 273. Google Scholar8. 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