Endovascular stent-grafting for diseases of the descending thoracic aorta

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 44-51

  Gerber, M ^a   Immer, F F ^a   Do, D D ^a   Carrel, T ^a   Schmidli, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Endovascular; Rupture; Stent graft; Thoracic aorta; Type B dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR STENT GRAFT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037464958     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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