Stent-graft versus open-surgical repair of the thoracic aorta: Mid-term results

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1188-1197

  Stone, David H ^a   Brewster, David C ^a   Kwolek, Christopher J ^a   LaMuraglia, Glenn M ^a   Conrad, Mark F ^a   Chung, Thomas K ^a   Cambria, Richard P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARESIS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 34248674181     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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