One-Stage Repair of Extensive Chronic Aortic Dissection Using the Arch-First Technique and Bilateral Anterior Thoracotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1502-1509

  Kouchoukos, Nicholas T ^a   Masetti, Paolo ^a   Mauney, Michael C ^a   Murphy, Michael C ^a   Castner, Catherine F ^a  

^a MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 53849145884     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.07.059     Document Type: Article

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