Management of thoracic aortic graft infections

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1990-1993

  Coselli, Joseph S ^a   Köksoy, Cüneyt ^a   Lemaire, Scott A ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA SURGERY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOPRESERVATION; DACRON IMPLANT; DEBRIDEMENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FATALITY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0344849422     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00355-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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