Prevalence of the abdominal aortic aneurysm: A sonographic screening study;Pravalenz des abdominellen aorten- aneurysmas: Eine sonographische screeningstudie

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Volumn 168, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 356-360

  Dock, W ^a,d   Turkof, E ^c   Maier, A ^a   Metz, V ^a   Puig, S ^a   Mittelbock M ^b   Eibenberger, K ^a   Lechner, C ^a   Polterauer, P ^a  

^a Univ Klin fur Radiodiagnostik

^b Univ Klin F Gefaßchirurgie

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIV KLIN FÜR RADIODIAGNOSTIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysma; Incidence; Prevalence; Risk factors; Screening studies; Therapy; Ultrasound examination

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; AGE; AUSTRIA; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AUSTRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031596957     PISSN: 09366652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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