Bleeding through the fiber interstices of a knitted Dacron graft 12 years after its implantation: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 953-956

  Akiyama, Kazuya ^a   Takazawa, Arifumi ^a   Hirota, Jun ^a   Yamanishi, Hideki ^a   Akazawa, Toshimasa ^a   Maeda, Tomohiro ^a  

^a Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graft dilation; Knitted Dacron bifurcated graft; Long term result; Perigraft hematoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DACRON VASCULAR PROSTHESIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0032888113     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02482795     Document Type: Article

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