Initial experience with endovascular aortic aneurysm repair without cardiologist or radiologists - Do vascular surgeons really need them?

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 413-416

  Chang, Jeanette K ^a,b   Calligaro, Keith D ^a,b   Dougherty, Matthew J ^a,b  

^a Pennsylvania Hospital ^*

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; STENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOLOGY; STENTS;

EID: 5444274141     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440403800503     Document Type: Review

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