Thoracic endografting in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting with a descending thoracic aneurysm

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 468-470

  Andersen, Nicholas D ^a   Dubose, John ^a   Shah, Ankoor ^a   Lee, Teng ^a   Wechsler, Stephanie B ^a   Hughes, G Chad ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1;

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75149123475     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.08.058     Document Type: Article

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