Persistent chronic peri-aortitis ('inflammatory aneurysm') after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Systematic review of the literature

Vascular Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-303

  Van Bommel, E F H ^a   Van Der Veer, S J ^a   Hendriksz, T R ^a   Bleumink, G S ^a  

^a ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm repair; Chronic peri aortitis; Endovascular; Inflammatory aneurysm; Open surgical; Peri aortic fibrosis; Ureteral obstruction

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; REVIEW; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 58249091917     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: 14770377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X08091147     Document Type: Review

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