Endoluminal stent-grafts for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-20

  Blum, Ulrich ^a   Voshage, Götz ^b   Lammer, Johannes ^c   Beyersdorf, Friedhelm ^a   Töllner, Dierck ^b   Kretschmer, Georg ^c   Spillner, Gerhard ^a   Polterauer, Peter ^c   Nagel, Gudrun ^b   Hölzenbein, Thomas ^c   Thurnher, Siegfried ^c   Langer, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Henriettenstiftung ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYESTERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031019823     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199701023360103     Document Type: Article

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