Most patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm are not suitable for endovascular repair using currently approved bifurcated stent-grafts

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 401-412

  Elkouri, Stephane ^a,b   Martelli, Eugenio ^a,b   Gloviczki, Peter ^a,b   McKusick, Michael A ^a,b   Panneton, Jean M ^a,b   Andrews, James C ^a,b   Noel, Audra A ^a,b   Bower, Thomas C ^a,b   Sullivan, Timothy M ^a,b   Rowland, Charles ^a,c   Hoskin, Tanya L ^a,c   Cherry, Kenneth J ^a,b  

^a Mayo Clinic ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REVIEW; STENT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS;

EID: 5444237827     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440403800502     Document Type: Review

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