The frozen elephant trunk: An interesting hybrid endovascular-surgical technique to treat complex pathologies of the thoracic aorta

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 597-599

  Schoenhoff, Florian S ^a   Schmidli, Juerg ^a   Eckstein, Friedrich S ^a   Berdat, Pascal A ^a   Immer, Franz F ^a   Carrel, Thierry P ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA;

ALLOYS; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847129176     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.10.038     Document Type: Article

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