Insights into imaging of aortitis.

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Published in Insights Imaging on September 20, 2012

Authors

Diana E Litmanovich1, Afra Yıldırım, Alexander A Bankier

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, dlitmano@bidmc.harvard.edu.

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