A critical approach for longitudinal clinical trial of stretch ptfe aortic grafts

Vascular

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 414-418

  Shah, D M ^a   Darling, R C ^a   Kreienberg, P B ^a   Wirth, G ^a   Shah, R ^a   Lloyd, W E ^a   Chang, B B ^a   Paty, P S K ^a   Leather, R P ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic graft; PTFE

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AXILLOFEMORAL ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031194717     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099700500413     Document Type: Article

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