Ascending aortic aneurysms treated by cuneiform resection and end-to-end anastomosis through a ministernotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Viganò, Mario ^a   Rinaldi, Mauro ^a,b   D'Armini, Andrea M ^a   Boffini, Massimo ^a   Zattera, Giuseppe F ^a   Alloni, Alessia ^a   Dore, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA SURGERY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STERNUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036841353     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04146-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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