Acute retrograde aortic dissection during endovascular repair of a thoracic aortic aneurysm

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1967-1969

  Bethuyne, Noëlla ^a   Bove, Thierry ^a   Van Den Brande, Pierre ^a   Goldstein, Jacques P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; REOPERATION; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037974605     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)05002-6     Document Type: Article

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