Litigation in Nontraumatic Aortic Diseases – A Tempest in the Malpractice Maelstrom

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2001 • 1,197 citations

Defensive Medicine Among High-Risk Specialist Physicians in a Volatile Malpractice Environment

2005 • 1,126 citations

What is the appropriate size criterion for resection of thoracic aortic aneurysms?

1997 • 590 citations

Clinical Features and Differential Diagnosis of Aortic Dissection: Experience With 236 Cases (1980 Through 1990)

1993 • 548 citations

Familial Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections—Incidence, Modes of Inheritance, and Phenotypic Patterns

2006 • 452 citations

Clinical Prediction of Acute Aortic Dissection

2000 • 390 citations

Familial Patterns of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms

1999 • 344 citations

Value of plasma fibrin D-dimers for detection of acute aortic dissection

2004 • 223 citations

D-dimer in Acute Aortic Dissection

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Chest radiography for the diagnosis of acute aortic syndrome

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Sued and nonsued physicians' self-reported reactions to malpractice litigation

1985 • 174 citations

Diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating D-Dimers in patients with acute aortic dissection

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Novel Biochemical Diagnostic Method for Aortic Dissection

1996 • 133 citations

Coping with a medical malpractice suit

2001 • 92 citations

A Rapid Bedside D-Dimer Assay (Cardiac D-Dimer) for Screening of Clinically Suspected Acute Aortic Dissection

2005 • 85 citations

Professional Liability Issues in Graduate Medical Education

2004 • 84 citations

64 slice cardiovascular CT in the Emergency Department: concepts and first experiences

2006 • 78 citations

Simple and Useful Tests for Discriminating Between Acute Aortic Dissection of the Ascending Aorta and Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Setting

2005 • 74 citations

Interval or Permanent Nonoperative Management of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection

1999 • 73 citations

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Failure of ticlopidine to inhibit deposition of indium-111-labeled platelets on Dacron prosthetic surfaces in humans.

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Nonsyndromic genetic predisposition to aortic dissection

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Beating a Sudden Killer

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Malpractice suits: their effect on doctors, patients, and families.

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Contemporary issues in thoracic aortic trauma.

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