Growth Rate of Affected Aorta in Patients With Type B Partially Closed Aortic Dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1251-1257

  Sueyoshi, Eijun ^a   Sakamoto, Ichiro ^a   Uetani, Masataka ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 70249125458     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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