Retroperitoneal aortic aneurysm repair: Long-term follow-up regarding wound complications and erectile dysfunction

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-199

  Ballard, Jeffrey L ^a,d,e   Abou Zamzam Jr , Ahmed M ^b   Teruya, Theodore H ^c   Harward, Timothy R S ^d   Flanigan, D Preston ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC PAIN; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FLANK BULGE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; RETROPERITONEAL AORTA ANEURYSM SURGERY; RETROPERITONEUM; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL APPROACH; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 33646516003     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-006-9014-2     Document Type: Article

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