High prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in a primary care screening programme

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1090-1094

  Boll, A P M ^a   Verbeek, A L M ^b   Van De Lisdonk, E H ^b   Van Der Vliet, J A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0031855534     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00814.x     Document Type: Article

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