Anastomotic pseudoaneurysms: Our experience with 49 cases

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 582-589

  Skourtis, G ^a   Bountouris, I ^b   Papacharalambous, G ^a   Mahera, E ^a   Besias, N ^b   Antoniou, I ^a   Pavlidis, P ^b   Maras, D ^b   Panoussis, P ^a   Andrikopoulos, V ^b,c  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOTIC PSEUDOANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GREECE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 33845676183     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-006-9070-7     Document Type: Article

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