Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair with the Zenith AAA endovascular graft: Does gender affect procedural success, postoperative morbidity, or early survival?

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1001-1008

  Biebl, Matthias ^a   Hakaim, Albert G ^a   Hugl, Beate ^a   Oldenburg, Warner A ^a   Paz Fumagalli, Ricardo ^a   McKinney, J Mark ^a   Greenberg, Roy ^b   Chuter, Timothy ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644866790     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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