Thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair: Results with 337 operations performed over a 15-year interval

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 236, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 471-479

  Cambria, Richard P ^a   Clouse, Darrin ^a   Davison, J Kenneth ^a   Dunn, Peter F ^a   Corey, Michael ^a   Dorer, David ^a   Messina, Louis M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA RUPTURE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036785010     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200210000-00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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