Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: 5-Year Follow-Up Results

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-378

  Sandford, R M ^a   Bown, M J ^a   Sayers, R D ^a   Fishwick, G ^a   London, N J ^a   Nasim, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 42949103122     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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