Long-Term Prognosis of Type A Aortic Dissection in Non-Marfan Patients With Histologic Pattern of Cystic Medial Necrosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 972-977

  Girdauskas, Evaldas ^a   Kuntze, Thomas ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a   Doenst, Torsten ^a   Mochalski, Michael ^a   Walther, Thomas ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC MEDIAL NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TYPE A AORTA DISSECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39149093039     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.051     Document Type: Article

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