Is endovascular stent grafting for descending thoracic aortic disease recommendable in patients with dysphagia?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1239-1241

  Chocron, Sidney ^a   Stoica, Lucian ^a   Koch, Stephane ^a   Bonneville, Jean François ^a   Kaili, Djamel ^a   Heyd, Bruno ^a   Etievent, Joseph Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STENT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036894663     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.125207     Document Type: Article

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