Is extended aortic replacement in acute type A dissection justifiable?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 525-529

  Urbanski, Paul P ^a,b   Siebel, Alexander ^a   Zacher, Michael ^a   Hacker, Robert W ^a  

^a Herz und Gefaess Klinik   (Germany)

^b Herz und Gefaess Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037314732     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04378-3     Document Type: Article

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