Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 1162-1165 , May 2009

True abdominal aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome

  • Toshio Takayama, MD
    • ,
  • Tetsuro Miyata, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Tetsuro Miyata, MD, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655 Japan
    • ,
  • Hirokazu Nagawa, MD

Received 3 September 2008 ,Accepted 2 December 2008.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(08)02131-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.007

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 1162-1165 , May 2009

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