Standard and new treatments for abdominal aortic aneurysms - The value of the Montefiore Endovascular Grafts for difficult aneurysms

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 829-837

  Ohki, Takao ^a,b   Veith, Frank J ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Endovascular graft; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 0032696012     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.829     Document Type: Article

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