European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 664-667 , June 2007

Deliberate Subclavian Artery Occlusion during Aortic Endovascular Repair: Is it Really that Safe?

,Accepted 13 December 2006.

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PII: S1078-5884(07)00006-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.12.013

European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 664-667 , June 2007

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