The role of spinal angiography in operations on the thoracic aorta: Myth or reality?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 346-351

  Heinemann, Markus K ^a,b   Brassel, Friedhelm ^a   Herzog, Thomas ^a   Dresler, Christoph ^a   Becker, Hartmut ^a   Borst, Hans Georg ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPINAL CORD; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0032006338     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01239-3     Document Type: Article

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