Elephant Trunk Anastomosis Proximal to Origin of Innominate Artery in Total Arch Replacement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1729-1734

  Taniguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Toda, Koichi ^a   Hata, Hiroki ^a   Shudo, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsue, Hajime ^b   Takahashi, Toshiki ^b   Kuki, Satoru ^b  

^a OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA, THORACIC; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 35348829852     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.05.087     Document Type: Article

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