Short-term results of endovascular AAA repair with the excluder bifurcated stent-graft

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 474-480

  Pfammatter, Thomas ^a   Lachat, Mario L ^a   Künzli, Andreas ^a   Baur, Daniel R ^a   Koppensteiner, Renate ^a   Turina, Marko ^a   Blum, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Complications; Endoleak; Modular stent graft; Polytetrafluoroethylene

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA GRAFT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STENT; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036695825     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/1545-1550(2002)009<0474:STROEA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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