Minimally invasive endovascular intervention in emergent and urgent thoracic aortic pathologies: Single center experience

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 312-319

  Saratzis, Nikolaos ^a,b   Melas, Nikolaos ^a   Saratzis, Athanasios ^a   Lazaridis, John ^a   Kiskinis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Endovascular; Symptomatic thoracic aortic aneurysm; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC AORTIC DISRUPTION; THORACIC AORTIC PSEUDOANEURYSM; THORAX INJURY;

EID: 57349195091     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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