Incomplete endograft apposition to the aortic arch: Bird-beak configuration increases risk of endoleak formation after thoracic endovascular aortic repair

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 645-652

  Ueda, Takuya ^a   Fleischmann, Dominik ^a   Dake, Michael D ^a   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^a   Sze, Daniel Y ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE TRAUMATIC TRANSECTION; ADULT; ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PENETRATING AORTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951437977     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10091468     Document Type: Article

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