Endovascular aortic repair as second-stage surgery after hybrid open arch repair by the frozen elephant trunk technique for extended thoracic aneurysm

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-261

  Uchida, Naomichi ^a   Kodama, Hiroshi ^b   Katayama, Keijiro ^a   Takasaki, Taiichi ^a   Katayama, Akira ^b   Takahashi, Shinya ^a   Sueda, Taijiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY ASA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elephant trunk; Endovascular aortic repair; Extended thoracic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875228648     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5761/atcs.nm.12.01918     Document Type: Article

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