Endoluminal therapy with endovascular grafts.
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.
Silberzweig
J E
JE
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y., USA.
Cynamon
J
J
Marin
M L
ML
Bakal
C W
CW
Rozenblit
A
A
Sprayregan
S
S
Veith
F J
FJ
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