A practical tool to control bleeding during sternal reentry for pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1037-1038

  Apaydin, Anil Z ^a   Posacioglu, Hakan ^a   Islamoglu, Fatih ^a   Telli, Ali ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BALLOON CATHETER; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADHESIONS; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTIC VALVE; BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STERNUM; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037336546     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04369-2     Document Type: Article

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