Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer of the aorta: Treatment by endovascular stent-graft placement

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 431-435

  Eggebrecht, Holger ^a   Baumgart, Dietrich ^a   Schmermund, Axel ^a   Herold, Ulf ^a   Hunold, Peter ^a   Jakob, Heinz ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Endovascular; Penetrating; Rupture; Stent graft; Ulcer

Indexed keywords

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROTIC ULCER; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; BLEEDING; CORONARY STENT; DESCENDING AORTA; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; STENTS; ULCER;

EID: 1342344024     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001573-200311000-00002     Document Type: Review

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