Prosthetic graft infection after descending thoracic/thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysmectomy: Management with in situ arterial allografts

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 671-678

  Kieffer, Edouard ^a   Sabatier, Jean ^a   Plissonnier, Didier ^a   Knosalla, Christoph ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035321691     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.112314     Document Type: Article

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