Sizeable Carotid Body Tumor Excision by Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator: A New Technical Approach

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-121

  Perdikides, Theodosios ^a   Avgerinos, Efthimios ^a   Lagios, Konstantinos ^a   Siafakas, Konstantinos X ^a  

^a Hellenic Air Force Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID BODY TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

CAROTID BODY TUMOR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 33846872827     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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