Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 900-905 , May 2007

Abdominal aortic aneurysm neck remodeling after open aneurysm repair

  • Juergen Falkensammer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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  • W. Andrew Oldenburg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: W. Andrew Oldenburg, MD, Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, Fla 32224.
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  • Matthias Biebl, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    • ,
  • Beate Hugl, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    • ,
  • Albert G. Hakaim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
    • ,
  • Julia E. Crook, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics Unit, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
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  • Todd L. Berland, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Vascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla
    • ,
  • Ricardo Paz-Fumagalli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Fla

Received 13 June 2006 ,Accepted 3 January 2007.

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 Competition of interest: none.Work at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville supported in part by a Vascular Surgery Research Grant from the J. William Von Liebig Foundation. (M.B. and B.H.).

PII: S0741-5214(07)00027-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.01.015

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 900-905 , May 2007

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