An alternative approach using long elephant trunk for extensive aortic aneurysm: Elephant trunk anastomosis at the base of the innominate artery

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 13 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Kuki, Satoru ^a   Taniguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Masai, Takafumi ^a   Yokota, Takenori ^a   Yoshida, Kiyoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Keiji ^a   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Extracorporeal circulation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVE PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PHRENIC NERVE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037167650     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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