Elective endovascular stent-graft repair of atherosclerotic thoracic aortic aneurysms: Clinical results and midterm follow-up

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 709-715

  Schoder, Maria ^a   Cartes Zumelzu, Fabiola ^a   Grabenwöger, Martin ^a   Cejna, Manfred ^a   Funovics, Martin ^a   Krenn, Claus G ^a   Hutschala, Doris ^a   Wolf, Florian ^a   Thurnher, Siegfried ^a   Kretschmer, Georg ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037370689     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.180.3.1800709     Document Type: Article

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