Short series of emergency stent-graft repair of symptomatic penetrating thoracic aortic ulcers (PTAU)

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-128

  Girn, H R S ^a   McPherson, S ^a   Nicholson, T ^a   Mavor, A I D ^a   Homer Vanniasinkam, S ^a   Gough, M J ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Aortic disease; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMPYEMA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARAPLEGIA; PENETRATING THORACIC AORTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY; THORAX DRAINAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 65349161679     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X08098951     Document Type: Article

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