Arterial dimensions in the lower extremities of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms - No indications of a generalized dilating diathesis

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1079-1084

  Sandgren, Thomas ^a   Sonesson, B ^a   Ryden Ahlgren, A ^a   Lanne T ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEURYSM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEG; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEURYSM; ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0035650521     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.119399     Document Type: Article

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