Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 272-277 , August 2008

Colonic ischemia complicating open vs endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Presented at the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Western Vascular Society, Kona, Hawaii, Sept 9, 2007.

Received 2 January 2008 ,Accepted 18 March 2008.

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 Competition of interest: none.

 CME article

PII: S0741-5214(08)00476-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.03.040

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 272-277 , August 2008

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