A rare case of aortic tube graft occlusion 35 years after coarctectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1961-1963

  Ashizawa, Naoto ^a   Tasaki, Hirofumi ^a   Shibata, Riyako ^a   Koide, Yuji ^a   Seto, Shinji ^a   Yamachika, Shiro ^a   Hazama, Shiro ^a   Eishi, Kiyoyuki ^a   Yano, Katsusuke ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARM; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; AXILLOFEMORAL ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANTERIOR SPINAL ARTERY SYNDROME; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037974609     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)05015-4     Document Type: Article

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