Initial management of acute type-a aortic dissection with a thrombosed false lumen: A retrospective cohort study

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 652-657

  Kurimoto, Yoshihiko ^a   Morishita, Kiyofumi ^a   Kawaharada, Nobuyoshi ^a   Fukada, Johji ^a   Asai, Yasufumi ^a   Abe, Tomio ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Surgical management; Thrombosed type

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NICARDIPINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4043162775     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2798-1     Document Type: Article

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