Retroperitoneal repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms offers postoperative benefits to male patients in the veterans affairs health system

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 728-732

  Borkon, Matthew J ^a   Zaydfudim, Victor ^a   Carey, Christopher D ^a   Brophy, Colleen M ^a   Guzman, Raul J ^a   Dattilo, Jeffery B ^a  

^a Tennessee Valley Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEFECATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GOVERNMENT; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEUM; PROCEDURES; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TENNESSEE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DEFECATION; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEUM; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TENNESSEE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77955653382     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2010.02.026     Document Type: Article

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