Aortic arch homograft as a bypass conduit for superior vena cava obstruction

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1296-1297

  Billing, J Stephen ^a   Sudarshan, Catherine D ^a   Schofield, Peter M ^a   Murgatroyd, Francis ^a   Wells, Francis C ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ARCH; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT; VERTIGO;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0141562314     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00694-5     Document Type: Article

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