Vascular Graft Replacement of the Ascending and Descending Aorta: Do Dacron Grafts Grow?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1206-1213

  Etz, Christian D ^a   Homann, Tobias ^a   Silovitz, Daniel ^a   Bodian, Carol A ^a   Luehr, Maximilian ^a   Di Luozzo, Gabriele ^b   Plestis, Konstadinos A ^a   Griepp, Randall B ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPOSITE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DACRON IMPLANT; DACRON VASCULAR PROSTHESIS; DESCENDING AORTA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACIC AORTA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548664397     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.05.034     Document Type: Article

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