Current status of thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair

Advances in Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 197-246

  Clouse, W Darrin ^a,b   Cambria, Richard P ^c,d  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CATHETER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 16544369588     PISSN: 00653411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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