Emergency stent-graft placement in thoracic aortic dissection and evolving rupture

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 464-470

  Nienaber, Christoph A ^a   Ince, Hüseyin ^b   Weber, Frank ^b   Rehders, Tim ^b   Petzsch, Michael ^b   Meinertz, Thomas ^b   Koschyk, Dietmar H ^b  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 0141645380     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8191.2003.02082.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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