Immediate Endovascular Stent Graft Repair of Acute Thoracic Aortic Rupture Due to Blunt Trauma

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 154-157

  Gan, John P ^a   Campbell, William A ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0036151337     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200201000-00026     Document Type: Article

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