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Treatment of abdominal aortic pseudoaneurysm with covered stents in a pediatric patient
Author(s) -
Khan Muhammad Sher,
Moore John W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/1522-726x(200008)50:4<445::aid-ccd17>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - medicine , pseudoaneurysm , surgery , radiology , aneurysm
An occasional complication of redilating stents placed in children is false aneurysm. We report the use of covered stents to treat a false aneurysm of the abdominal aorta in an adolescent girl with neurofibromatosis and abdominal coarctation of the aorta. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Intervent. 50:445–448, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.