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A near fatal complication of an extra-anatomic aortic graft
1Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Hospital, Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Surgery
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
The case report is presented of a patient with a potentially lethal embolism secondary to thrombosis of a supraceliac distal thoracic aorta to femoral artery bypass. In view of this serious complication, wide use of this type of extra-anatomic bypass does not seem to be warranted.