Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 859-865 , April 2009

Durability of abdominal aortic endograft with the Talent Unidoc stent graft in common practice: Core lab reanalysis from the TAURIS multicenter study

  • Piergiorgio Cao, MD, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Piergiorgio Cao, MD, FRCS, Unit of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University of Perugia, Piazza Menghini 1, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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  • Paola De Rango, MD
    • ,
  • Gianbattista Parlani, MD
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  • Fabio Verzini, MD
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  • Talent Unidoc Retrospective Italian Study (TAURIS) Group

      Affiliations

    • Please see Appendix for list of coordinating and participating centers of the TAURIS Group.

Received 29 August 2008 ,Accepted 11 November 2008.

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 Supported by a grant from Medtronic, Santa Rosa, Calif.

 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(08)01975-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.11.044

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 859-865 , April 2009

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