Risk factors for aneurysm rupture in patients kept under ultrasound surveillance

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-297

  Brown, Louise C ^a   Powell, Janet T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033509877     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199909000-00002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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