Surgical strategy in aortoesophageal fistulae: Endovascular stentgrafts and in situ repair of the aorta with cryopreserved homografts

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 853-859

  Topel, Ingolf ^a   Stehr, Alexander ^a   Steinbauer, Markus G ^a   Piso, Pompilio ^a   Schlitt, Hans J ^a   Kasprzak, Piotr M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEZOLID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA GRAFT; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC DISEASES; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 35648965678     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3180caa3c9     Document Type: Article

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