Thoracic aorta emergencies: Is the endovascular treatment the new gold standard?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 730-734

  Ferrari, Enrico ^a   Tozzi, Piergiorgio ^a   Von Segesser, Ludwig ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic rupture; Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); Thoracic aorta; Vascular endoprosthesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA WALL; ARTERY OCCLUSION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA;

EID: 33845403235     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.136325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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