Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 4 , Pages 733-738 , April 2001

Histopathologic analysis of endovascular stent grafts from patients with aortic aneurysms: Does healing occur?

Presented at the Twenty-eighth Annual Symposium of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, Rancho Mirage, Calif, Mar 15-19, 2000.

Received 30 March 2000 ,Accepted 22 November 2000.

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☆ Competition of interest: nil.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Michael L. Marin, MD, Henry Kaufmann Professor of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 (e-mail: michael.marin@mountsinai.org ).

PII: S0741-5214(01)59072-2

doi: 10.1067/mva.2001.113980

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 4 , Pages 733-738 , April 2001

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