Complete abdominal aortic aneurysm thrombosis and obstruction of both common iliac arteries with intrathrombotic pressures demonstrating a continuing risk of rupture: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Filis, Konstantinos A ^a   Lagoudianakis, Emmanuel E ^a   Markogiannakis, Haridimos ^a   Kotzadimitriou, Aikaterini ^b   Koronakis, Nikolaos ^b   Bramis, Konstantinos ^a   Xiromeritis, Konstantinos ^a   Theodorou, Dimitrios ^a   Manouras, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Military Veterans' Fund Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 72749084890     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-3-9292     Document Type: Article

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