Anaconda aortic stent-graft: Single-center experience of a new commercially available device for abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-41

  Saratzis, Nikolaos ^a   Melas, Nikolaos ^a   Saratzis, Athanasios ^a,c   Lazarides, John ^a   Ktenidis, Kyriakos ^a   Tsakiliotis, Sotirios ^b   Kiskinis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Farmaki 9A Panorama   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Endovascular aneurysm repair; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39149088019     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/07-2277.1     Document Type: Article

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