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Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages e1-e3 , January 2010

Endoluminal Repair of a Contained Thoracic Aortic Rupture Due to Primary Staphylococcal Aortitis

  • I. Töpel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg, Prüfeninger Str. 86, 93049 Regensburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 9413692221; fax: +49 9413692223.
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  • F. Audebert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology and Infectiology, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg, Germany
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  • G. Herzog

      Affiliations

    • Department of Angiology and Diabetology, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg, Germany
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  • M.G. Steinbauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg, Germany

Received 18 May 2009 ,Accepted 15 September 2009.

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PII: S1533-3167(09)00033-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2009.09.005

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