Prognosis of patients turned down for conventional abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the endovascular and sonographic era: Szilagyi revisited?

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 752-757

  Conway, K P ^a   Byrne, J ^a   Townsend, M ^b   Lane, I F ^a  

^a Institute of Healthcare Studies   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0035319461     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.112800     Document Type: Article

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