High-porosity expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts for thoracic vena cava replacement with or without an omentum wrap

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 631-635

  Nishibe, Toshiya ^a   Yasuda, Keishu ^a   Ohkashiwa, Hideki ^a   Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Ukuda, Yasuhiro ^b   Tanabe, Tatsuzo ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c Sapporo Gen Hosp of Nippon Telegr   (Japan)

Author keywords

High porosity polytetrafluoroethylene graft; Omentum wrap; Thoracic inferior vena cava reconstruction

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOG; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRANULATION TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; NONHUMAN; OMENTUM; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POROSITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033931073     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950070103     Document Type: Article

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