Total arch replacement with elephant trunk procedure for retrograde dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Hanafusa, Yuji ^a,b   Ogino, Hitoshi ^a   Sasaki, Hiroaki ^a   Minatoya, Kenji ^a   Ando, Motomi ^a   Okita, Yutaka ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STERNUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036840602     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04141-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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