Outcome of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in patients with previous spinal cord injury in the department of veterans' affairs hospitals

Vascular

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 286-290

  Jacobs, D L ^a   Longo, W E ^a   Peterson, G J ^a   Mckirgan, L W ^a   Virgo, K S ^a   Johnson, F E ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031126939     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099700500306     Document Type: Article

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