Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 662-666 , April 2007

Anatomic exclusion from endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysm

Presented at the 2006 Annual Symposium of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, Las Vegas, Nev, March 8-11, 2006.

Received 13 March 2006 ,Accepted 22 December 2006.

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    A Venn diagram demonstrates the clustering of patients according to exclusion criteria category. Note that fully 28 of 33 patients were excluded at least partly because of an anatomically hostile prox

    A Venn diagram demonstrates the clustering of patients according to exclusion criteria category. Note that fully 28 of 33 patients were excluded at least partly because of an anatomically hostile proximal neck.

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    Kaplan-Meier survival for those 25 patients who did not undergo operative repair at our institution.

    Kaplan-Meier survival for those 25 patients who did not undergo operative repair at our institution.

 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(07)00012-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.12.062

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 662-666 , April 2007