Revolutionary treatment of aneurysms and dissections of descending aorta: The endovascular approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Buffolo, Enio ^a,b   Palma Da Fonseca, José Honório ^a   Marcondes De Souza, José Augusto ^a   Rodrigues Alves, Claudia Maria ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA INJURY; AORTA PROSTHESIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMATOMA; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTENSION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PARAPLEGIA; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURVIVAL; THORAX SURGERY; ULCER;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036841386     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04138-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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