A Novel Approach for the Endovascular Repair of the Small Thoracic Aorta: Customizing Off-the-Shelf Endoluminal Grafts to Treat a Post-Coarctation Pseudoaneurysm

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1115-1117

  Kpodonu, Jacques ^a   Wheatley III, Grayson H ^a   Williams, James P ^a   Rodriguez Lopez, Julio A ^a   Ramaiah, Venkatesh G ^a   Diethrich, Edward B ^a  

^a Arizona Heart Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 39149086387     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.120     Document Type: Article

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