Survival Benefit of Endovascular Descending Thoracic Aortic Repair for the High-Risk Patient

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1628-1634

  Patel, Himanshu J ^a   Shillingford, Michael S ^a   Williams, David M ^a   Upchurch Jr , Gilbert R ^a   Dasika, Narasimham L ^a   Prager, Richard L ^a   Deeb, G Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; THORACIC AORTA; ULCER;

EID: 34247278105     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.12.070     Document Type: Article

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