Longitudinal ruptures of polyester knitted vascular prostheses

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1015-1021

  Chakfe, Nabil ^a   Riepe, Gunnar ^c   Dieval, Florence ^b   Le Magnen, Jean Francois ^b   Wang, Lu ^a   Urban, Elisabeth ^b   Beaufigeau, Marc ^a   Durand, Bernard ^b   Imig, Herbert ^c   Kretz, Jean Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b The Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique Textile   (France)

^c Thoracic and Vascular Surgery ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYESTER; VELOUR;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIME;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYESTERS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18044401317     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.113493     Document Type: Article

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