Endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic disease: Four years of experience

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Bortone, Alessandro S ^a,b   De Cillis, Emanuela ^a   D'Agostino, Donato ^a   Tupputi Schinosa, Luigi De Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endovascular; Middle term; Thoracic aortic disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644314000     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000138977.54611.3b     Document Type: Article

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