Stent-Graft Placement for Mycotic Aneurysm of the Thoracic Aorta - Report of a Case

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-90

  Nishimoto, Masayoshi ^a   Hasegawa, Shigeto ^a   Asada, Kunio ^a   Tsunemi, Kotaro ^a   Sasaki, Shinjiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Endovascular stent grafts; Mycotic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

DACRON;

AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOLEAK; FALSE ANEURYSM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL RISK; TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOSES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0942276915     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.88     Document Type: Article

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