The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 21-28.e6 , July 2008

Use of custom Dacron branch grafts for “hybrid” aortic debranching during endovascular repair of thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms

Received 9 September 2007 ,Revised 22 January 2008 ,Accepted 7 February 2008.

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 Read at the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of The Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, June 27–30, 2007.

PII: S0022-5223(08)00449-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.02.051

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 21-28.e6 , July 2008

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