Serial CT Volume and Thrombus Length Measurements after Endovascular Repair of Stanford Type B Aortic Dissection

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Czermak, Benedikt V ^a,c,d   Mallouhi, Ammar ^a   Perkmann, Reinhold ^b   Steingruber, Iris E ^a   Waldenberger, Peter ^a   Neuhauser, Beate ^b   Fraedrich, Gustav ^b   Jung, Tarzis ^c   Jaschke, Werner R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Chirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^c Hospital Waid   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

False lumen thrombosis; Stent graft; Thoracic aorta; True lumen; Type B dissection; Volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA BIFURCATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY STENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 1042291143     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/1545-1550(2004)011<0001:SCVATL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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