Evolving concepts in the treatment of traumatic aortic injury

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 625-631

  Fattori, Rossella ^a   Buttazzi, K ^a   Russo, V ^a   Lovato, L ^a   Botta, L ^a   Gostoli, V ^a   Bartolini, S ^a   Di Bartolomeo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aorta surgery; Trauma; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 36148996811     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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