Surgery
Volume 143, Issue 1 , Pages 43-50 , January 2008

Diagnosis and management of primary aortoenteric fistulas-experience learned from eighteen patients

  • Yang Song

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
    • Both Yang Song and Quanda Liu contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Quanda Liu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
    • Both Yang Song and Quanda Liu contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Hong Shen

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
    • ,
  • Xin Jia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
    • ,
  • Hua Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China
    • ,
  • Liang Qiao

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Liang Qiao, MD, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine at Queen Mary Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam Road, HK, China.

,Accepted 30 June 2007.

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 Supported by Institutional Funding from PAL Hospital, China.

PII: S0039-6060(07)00508-9

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.06.036

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