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Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 1176-1181 , December 2006

The role of aortic neck dilation and elongation in the etiology of stent graft migration after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair with a passive fixation device

Presented at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Western Vascular Society, Park City, Utah, Sept. 27, 2005.

Received 28 November 2005 ,Accepted 14 August 2006.

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