Initial and midterm results for repair of aortic diseases with handmade stent grafts

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 726-732

  Onitsuka, Seiji ^a   Tanaka, Atsuhisa ^a   Akashi, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Akaiwa, Keiichi ^a   Otsuka, Hiroyuki ^a   Yokokura, Hiroko ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; Endovascular repair; Handmade stent graft; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 33744491327     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.726     Document Type: Article

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