Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 2 , Pages 250-257 , February 2007

Iliac fixation inhibits migration of both suprarenal and infrarenal aortic endografts

Presented at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of The Society for Vascular Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, June 1-4, 2006.

Received 8 June 2006 ,Accepted 30 September 2006.

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 Competition of interest: Ms Crabtree, Dr Bloch, and Dr Zarins are consultants to Medtronic Vascular, the manufacturer of the endovascular devices used in this study. Other authors have no competing interests.

PII: S0741-5214(06)01844-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.09.061

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 2 , Pages 250-257 , February 2007

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