Endovascular stent grafting of a penetrating ulcer in the descending thoracic aorta

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 178-179

  Crane, J S ^a   Cowling, M ^a   Cheshire, N J ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTAL ULCER; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOCENTESIS; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 0037289819     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ejvs.2002.1791     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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