Successful treatment of a Stanford type A dissection by percutaneous placement of a covered stent graft in the ascending aorta

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1808-1810

  Ihnken, Kai ^a,b,c   Sze, Daniel ^a,b   Dake, Michael D ^a,b   Fleischmann, Dominik ^a,b   Van Der Starre, Pieter ^a,b   Robbins, Robert ^a,b  

^a Stanford Univ School of Medicine ^*

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2642555598     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2003.12.019     Document Type: Article

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