Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients with severe angulation of the proximal neck using a fexible stent-graft: European multicenter experience

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-250

  Albertini, J N ^a   Perdikides, T ^b   Soong, C V ^c   Hinchliffe, R J ^d   Trojanowska, M ^e   Yusuf, S W ^f   Clement C ^a   Hopkinson, B R ^d  

^a SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

^b Hellenic Air Force Hospital   (Greece)

^c BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^f ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aorfix stent graft; Aortic aneurysm, abdominal; Endovascular surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EUROPE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745892887     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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