The Elephant Trunk Technique for Staged Repair of Complex Aneurysms of the Entire Thoracic Aorta

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1561-1569

  LeMaire, Scott A ^a   Carter, Stacey A ^a   Coselli, Joseph S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ARCH; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELEPHANT TRUNK TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANASTOMOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33646851891     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.11.038     Document Type: Article

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