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Anna M Sailer1, Bart A J M Wagemans2, Marco Das3

  • 1Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands karmanna@stanford.edu.

Journal of Endovascular Therapy : an Official Journal of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists
|September 19, 2015
PubMed
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Keywords:
aortic motionascending aortacomputed tomographydescending aortafusion image guidancerespirationstent-graftthoracic aortathoracic endovascular aortic repair

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