The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 117, Issue 4 , Pages 776-786 , April 1999

Risk factors for rupture of chronic type B dissections

Read at the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Mass, May 3-6, 1998.

Received 8 May 1998 ,Revised 22 December 1998 ,Accepted 23 December 1998.

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☆ Dr Juvonen was the recipient of the Ingegerd and Viking Olov Björk Scholarship for Cardiothoracic Research 1997.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Randall B. Griepp, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029.

★ *Current address: Department of Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, 90220 Oulu, Finland.

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 117, Issue 4 , Pages 776-786 , April 1999

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