Endovascular stent-graft for blunt thoracic aortic rupture: A novel and useful approach in selected cases

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 386-389

  Dagenais, François ^a   Lavoie, Perrine ^a   Bauset, Richard ^a   Normand, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0345306688     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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