Fracture of the Connecting Bar of a Stent Graft in the Thoracic Aorta: A Diagnosis by Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-191

  Dialetto, Giovanni ^a,d   Bortone, Alessandro Santo ^b   Covino, Franco Enrico ^a   Rossi, Giovanni ^c   Scognamiglio, Giancarlo ^a   Muto, Emanuele ^c   De Luca Tupputi Schinosa, Luigi ^b   Cotrufo, Maurizio ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c MONALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; RUPTURE; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0842278620     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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