Contemporary management of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: Endovascular versus open

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 841-852

  Conrad, Mark F ^a   Cambria, Richard P ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Grafting; Stents; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; STENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 39549087038     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.690958     Document Type: Review

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