Single-stage repair of arch aneurysms with a long elephant trunk: Medium-term follow-up of thromboexcluded aneurysms

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-52

  Toda, Koichi ^a   Taniguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Hata, Hiroki ^a   Shudo, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsue, Hajime ^b   Kuki, Satoru ^c   Sawa, Yoshiki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Takarazuka Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250708528     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.02.030     Document Type: Article

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