Two-year single-center experience with thoracic endovascular aortic repair using the EndoFit thoracic stent-graft

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 530-538

  Qu, Lefeng ^a,b   Raithel, Dieter ^a  

^a Nuremberg Southern Hospital   (Germany)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Debranching technique; Endovascular repair therapy; Extra anatomical bypass; Stent graft; Thoracic aortic aneurysm; Thoracic aortic dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA BALLOON; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349091015     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/08-2364.1     Document Type: Article

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