Endovascular treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms with the EndoFit stent-graft

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-181

  Saratzis, N ^a   Saratzis, Athanasios ^a,b   Melas, N ^a   Ginis, G ^a   Lioupis, A ^a   Lykopoulos, D ^a   Lazaridis, J ^a   Kiskinis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Descending thoracic aortic aneurysm; EndoFit; Endovascular; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY STENT; COURSE EVALUATION; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOLEAK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERAPY EFFECT; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846414711     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-006-0168-7     Document Type: Article

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