Improved Outcomes with Endovascular Stent Grafts for Thoracic Aorta Transections

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-157

  Mohan, I V ^a,b   Hitos, K ^b   White, G H ^a   Harris, J P ^a   Stephen, M S ^a   May, J ^a   Swinnen, J ^b   Fletcher, J P ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multiple trauma; Stent grafts; Thoracic aortic transection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPLANTATION; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA TRANSECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46949111685     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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