Endovascular repair of traumatic descending thoracic aortic disruptions: Should endovascular therapy become the gold standard?

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 331-337

  Uzieblo, Matt ^a,b   Sanchez, Luis A ^a,b,c   Rubin, Brian G ^a,b   Choi, Eric T ^a,b   Geraghty, Patrick J ^a,b   Flye, M Wayne ^a,b   Curci, John A ^a,b   Moon, Marc R ^a,c   Sicard, Gregorio A ^a,b  

^a Washington Univ School of Medicine ^*

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Section of Vascular Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUOROSCOPY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STENT; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 4043172849     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440403800404     Document Type: Article

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