Floating aortic arch thrombus involving the supraaortic trunks: Successful treatment with supra-aortic debranching and antegrade endograft implantation

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1177-1180

  Rancic, Zoran ^a   Pfammatter, Thomas ^b   Lachat, Mario ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^b   Veith, Frank J ^c   Mayer, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTEGRADE ENDOGRAFT IMPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FLOATING AORTA ARCH THROMBUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SUPRAAORTIC DEBRANCHING TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBUS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; BIOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350571113     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.05.052     Document Type: Article

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