Severe obstructive calcifications affecting the descending and suprarenal abdominal aorta without coexisting peripheral atherosclerotic disease - Coral reef aorta

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 206-208

  Teebken, Omke E ^a   Pichlmaier, M A ^a   Kuhn C ^a   Haverich, A ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Coarctation; Coral reef aorta

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; POLYESTER;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORAL REEF AORTA; DESCENDING AORTA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY; LABORATORY TEST; PARAPLEGIA; THORACOTOMY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MIDDLE AGED; POLYESTERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748620918     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526.35.3.206     Document Type: Article

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