Changing trends in management of thoracic aortic disease: Where do we stand with thoracic endovascular stent grafts?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-178

  Dagenais, François ^a   Normand, Jean Pierre ^a   Turcotte, Roc ^a   Mathieu, Patrick ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic diseases; Aortic surgery; Thoracic stent grafts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUEBEC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 16844383234     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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