Single-stage transmediastinal replacement of the ascending, arch, and descending thoracic aorta

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1232-1238

  Beaver, Thomas M ^a   Martin, Tomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034779206     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02998-8     Document Type: Article

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