Arterial repair with synthetic patch by using titanium clips

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 292-295

  Pikoulis, Emmanouil ^a,b   Rhee, Peter ^a   Nishibe, Toshiya ^a   Burris, David ^a   Leppäniemi, Ari K ^a   Fishback, Nancy ^a   Wherry, David C ^a   Rich, Norman M ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artery; Metal clips; Reconstruction; Synthetic patch; VCS clips

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLYPROPYLENE; SUTURE MATERIAL; TITANIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURING METHOD; SWINE;

EID: 0033996960     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200002000-00016     Document Type: Article

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