Magnetic resonance angiography of collateral blood supply to spinal cord in thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm patients

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-271

  Backes, Walter H ^a   Nijenhuis, Robbert J ^a   Mess, Werner H ^a   Wilmink, Freke A ^a   Schurink, Geert Willem H ^a   Jacobs, Michael J ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADAMKIEWICZ ARTERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD LESION; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47249107238     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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