Are Penetrating Aortic Ulcers Best Treated Using an Endovascular Approach?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1688-1691

  Brinster, Derek R ^a   Wheatley III, Grayson H ^b   Williams, James ^b   Ramaiah, Venkatesh G ^b   Diethrich, Edward B ^b   Rodriguez Lopez, Julio A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARIZONA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA ULCER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; ULCER;

EID: 33750037311     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.043     Document Type: Article

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