Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 19-28 , July 2008

Outcomes following endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR): An anatomic and device-specific analysis

Presented at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, Ledyard, Conn, Oct 5-7, 2007.

Received 28 October 2007 ,Accepted 2 February 2008.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(08)00203-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.02.003

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 19-28 , July 2008

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