Screening for abdomimal aortic aneurysms during a basic medical checkup in residents of a Japanese rural community

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 594-599

  Adachi, Koichi ^a   Iwasawa, Takamasa ^a   Tsuyoshi, Ono ^a  

^a Ohmori Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Iliac arterial aneurysm; Japanese population; Screening; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; HEALTH; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0033624515     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950070098     Document Type: Article

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