First experience using intraoperative contrastenhanced ultrasound during endovascular aneurysm repair for infrarenal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1103-1110

  Kopp, Reinhard ^a,c   Zürn, Werner ^b   Weidenhagen, Rolf ^c   Meimarakis, Georgios ^c   Clevert, Dirk A ^c  

^a Staetisches Klinikum Munich ^*  (Germany)

^b Klinikum Harlaching   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INFRARENAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STENT; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77952307471     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.12.050     Document Type: Article

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