Elephant trunk procedure for surgical treatment of aortic dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-87

  Ando, Motomi ^a   Takamoto, Shinichi ^a   Okita, Yutaka ^a   Morota, Tetsuro ^a   Matsukawa, Ritsu ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INTESTINE NECROSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERICARDITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032125711     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00349-X     Document Type: Article

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