Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 270-276 , February 2008

Infected aneurysm of the thoracic aorta

  • Ron-Bin Hsu, MD
    • ,
  • Fang-Yue Lin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Dr Fang-Yue Lin, National Taiwan University Hospital, No.7, Chung-Shan S Rd, Taipei, Taiwan 100, ROC.

Received 3 July 2007 ,Accepted 5 October 2007.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(07)01615-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.10.017

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 270-276 , February 2008

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