Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 209-212 , July 2000

Surgical treatment of recurrent abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

Received 20 September 1999 ,Accepted 4 January 2000.

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☆ Competition of interest: nil.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Naoki Washiyama, First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 3600 Handa-cho Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan.

PII: S0741-5214(00)68998-X

doi: 10.1067/mva.2000.105949

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 209-212 , July 2000

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