Operative Strategy for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Ascending Aortic or Hemiarch Versus Total Arch Replacement With Frozen Elephant Trunk

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 773-777

  Uchida, Naomichi ^a   Shibamura, Hidenori ^a   Katayama, Akira ^a   Shimada, Norimitsu ^a   Sutoh, Miwa ^a   Ishihara, Hiroshi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY ASA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Kajikawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; DEATH; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FROZEN ELEPHANT TRUNK; HEMIARCH REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; TOTAL ARCH REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 60449099973     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.061     Document Type: Article

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