Successful treatment of an aortoesophageal fistula after emergency endovascular thoracic aortic stent-graft placement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1117-1120

  Czerny, Martin ^a,b   Zimpfer, Daniel ^a   Fleck, Tatjana ^a   Gottardi, Roman ^a   Cejna, Manfred ^a   Schoder, Maria ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a   Grabenwoger, Martin ^a   Mueller, Michael Rolf ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA GRAFT; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; DYSPHAGIA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ESOPHAGOSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSTOMY; GRAFT INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX PAIN; THROMBUS;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGECTOMY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 23944506007     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.02.136     Document Type: Article

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