Management of diseases of the descending thoracic aorta in the endovascular era: A medicare population study

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 603-609

  Conrad, Mark F ^a   Ergul, Emel A ^a   Patel, Virendra I ^a   Paruchuri, Vikram ^a   Kwolek, Christopher J ^a   Cambria, Richard P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR THORACIC AORTIC REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY; TRAUMATIC AORTIC TEAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77957984526     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181f4eaef     Document Type: Article

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