Endoluminal therapy with endovascular grafts
J E Silberzweig1, J Cynamon, M L Marin
1Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y., USA.
Hospital Practice (1995)
|January 15, 1996
Abstract:
The addition of balloon-expandable stents to conventional graft material allows minimally invasive repair of aortic and other aneurysms, arterial occlusions, and arterial trauma. Vascular access can be made at a site far from the pathology.
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