The impact of spinal angiography on the neurological outcome after surgery on the descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aorta

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Minatoya, Kenji ^a   Karck, Matthias ^a   Hagl, Christian ^a   Meyer, Anna ^a   Brassel, Friedhelm ^a   Harringer, Wolfgang ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 0036839794     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04149-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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