Utility of Covered Stents for Revision of Aging Failing Synthetic Hemodialysis Grafts: A Report of Three Cases

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 550-553

  Silas, Anne M ^a   Bettmann, Michael A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis shunts; Graft, interventional procedures; Stents and prostheses

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE INFECTION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN ULCER; STENT; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 1642539180     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-003-0013-1     Document Type: Article

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