Elective abdominal aortic aneurysm operations - The results of a single surgeon series of 243 consecutive operations from a district general hospital

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 64-68

  Humphreys, W V ^a,b   Byrne, J ^a   James, W ^a  

^a YSBYTY GWYNEDD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Co morbidity; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALES;

EID: 0033962812     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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