Evolving Techniques in the Treatment of Carotid Artery Kinking: The Use of Resected Redundant Arterial Segment

American Surgeon

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-70

  Gugulakis, Alexandros G ^a,b   Matsagas, M I ^a   Vasdekis, S N ^a   Giannakakis, S G ^a   Lazaris, A M ^a   Sechas, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035220468     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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