Extended aortic replacement in acute dissection by the separated elephant trunk technique

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1664-1668

  Konishi, Toshio ^a   Higuchi, Kazuhiko ^a   Fukata, Mutumu ^a   Takeda, Makoto ^a   Akisima, Shinji ^a   Fukuda, Shoji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033002810     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00304-5     Document Type: Article

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