Endovascular stent-graft repair of aorto-esophageal fistula causing upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Harefuah

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 82-84

  Ginzburg, Victor ^a,b   Greenberg, George ^a,b   Delgado, Chorche ^a,b   Zudikov, Vadim ^a,b   Kirstein, Boris ^a,b   Szendro, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aortic; Esophageal; Fistula; Giant cell arteritis; GIT bleeding; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

AORTA; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; STENT; AGED; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; STENTS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25644446866     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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