Surgical treatment of five patients with aortobronchial fistula in the aortic arch

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1821-1823

  Nishizawa, Junichiro ^a   Matsumoto, Masahiko ^a   Sugita, Takaaki ^a   Matsuyama, Katsuhiko ^a   Tokuda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yoshida, Kazunori ^a   Matsuo, Takehiko ^a  

^a TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA SURGERY; AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSECTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REOPERATION; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 1942468607     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00998-6     Document Type: Article

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