Blunt traumatic aortic injury: Initial experience with endovascular repair

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1403-1408

  Azizzadeh, Ali ^a   Keyhani, Kourosh ^a   Miller III, Charles C ^a   Coogan, Sheila M ^a   Safi, Hazim J ^a   Estrera, Anthony L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149141850     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.02.234     Document Type: Article

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