Comparing Apples to Oranges: Endovascular Management of Complicated Acute Type B Aortic Dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2005-2006

  Khoynezhad, Ali ^a  

^a NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA RUPTURE; BACKACHE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOSCOPY; AORTIC ANEURYSM; HUMANS;

EID: 65649118891     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.006     Document Type: Letter

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