Nihil nocere on the rocky road to endovascular stent-graft treatment

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 620-621

  Nienaber, Christoph A ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^b   Ince, Hüseyin ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; EDITORIAL; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

EID: 1542344323     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2003.11.051     Document Type: Editorial

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