The endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm: An update analysis of structural failure modes of endovascular stent grafts

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-112

  Jacobs, Tikva ^b   Teodorescu, Victoria ^b   Morrissey, Nicholas ^b   Carroccio, Alfio ^b   Ellozy, Sharif ^b   Minor, Michael ^b   Hollier, Larry H ^b   Marin, Michael L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; DEVICE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EROSION; HUMAN; MATERIALS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0037600490     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7967(03)00006-1     Document Type: Review

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