Thoracic Aortic Stent-Graft Devices: Problems, Failure Modes, and Applicability

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 81-89

  Nienaber, Christoph A ^a   Kische, Stephan ^a   Ince, Hüseyin ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GRAFT PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENT; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250222773     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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