Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 2 , Pages 243-249 , February 2007

Outcomes of original and low-permeability Gore Excluder endoprosthesis for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

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

  • William Tanski III, MD
    • ,
  • Mark Fillinger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Mark Fillinger, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756.

Received 28 June 2006 ,Accepted 14 October 2006.

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 Competition of interest: Dr Fillinger and/or the Hitchcock Foundation has received grant and research support from W. L. Gore, Medical Metrx Solutions, Medtronic, and Boston Scientific within the past year. No corporate entities requested review or attempted to influence the study design, data collection, analysis, or interpretation in any way.

PII: S0741-5214(06)01972-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.10.042

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 2 , Pages 243-249 , February 2007

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