Total aortic arch replacement through the L-incision approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-125

  Tominaga, Ryuji ^a,b   Kurisu, Kazuhiro ^a   Ochiai, Yoshie ^a   Nakashima, Atsuhiro ^a   Masuda, Munetaka ^a   Morita, Shigeki ^a   Yasui, Hisataka ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITAKYUSHU MUNICIPAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA ARCH; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCENDING AORTA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; L INCISION APPROACH; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETRACTOR; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037236686     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04300-X     Document Type: Article

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