The correlation of aortic neck length to early and late outcomes in endovascular aneurysm repair patients

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 738-748

  AbuRahma, Ali F ^a   Campbell, John ^a   Stone, Patrick A ^a   Nanjundappa, Aravinda ^a   Jain, Akhilesh ^a   Dean, L Scott ^b   Habib, Joseph ^a   Keiffer, Tammi ^b   Emmett, Mary ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA NECK; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349326023     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.04.061     Document Type: Article

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