The clamshell approach for the treatment of extensive thoracic aortic disease

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 814-817

  Doss, Mirko ^a   Woehleke, Till ^b   Wood, Jeffrey P ^b   Martens, Sven ^b   Greinecker, Gerhard Wimmer ^b   Moritz, Anton ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0141742210     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)00215-0     Document Type: Article

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