Population-based record linkage study of the incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in Western Australia in 1985-1994

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 648-652

  Semmens, J B ^a   Norman, P E ^b   Lawrence Brown, M M D ^c   Bass, A J ^a   Holman, C D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031835805     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00700.x     Document Type: Article

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