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Aneurysm, False

"Aneurysm, False" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Not an aneurysm but a well-defined collection of blood and CONNECTIVE TISSUE outside the wall of a blood vessel or the heart. It is the containment of a ruptured blood vessel or heart, such as sealing a rupture of the left ventricle. False aneurysm is formed by organized THROMBUS and HEMATOMA in surrounding tissue.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Aneurysm, False" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Aneurysm, False" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 189 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2011
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.