Distribution of early atherosclerotic lesions in the human abdominal aorta correlates with wall shear stresses measured in vivo

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 328-333

  Pedersen, E M ^a   Oyre, S ^a   Agerbaek M ^b   Kristensen, I B ^b   Ringgaard, S ^a   Boesiger, P ^b   Paaske, W P ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Skejby Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; Intimal thickness; Magnetic resonance imaging; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA FLOW; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 0033214411     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ejvs.1999.0913     Document Type: Article

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