Clinical practice guidelines for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Written by the standards of practice committee for the society of interventional radiology and endorsed by the cardiovascular and interventional radiological society of Europe and the Canadian interventional radiology association

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1632-1655

  Walker, T Gregory ^a   Kalva, Sanjeeva P ^a   Yeddula, Kalpana ^a   Wicky, Stephan ^a   Kundu, Sanjoy ^b   Drescher, Peter ^c   D'Othee, B Janne ^d   Rose, Steven C ^e   Cardella, John F ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c West Allis Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA GRAFT; CANADA; ENDOLEAK; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 78049270002     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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