Two-year outcomes after conventional or endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 2398-2405

  Blankensteijn, Jan D ^a   De Jong, Sjors E C A ^a,b   Prinssen, Monique ^b   Van Der Ham, Arie C ^c   Buth, Jaap ^d   Van Sterkenburg, Steven M M ^e   Verhagen, Hence J M ^b   Buskens, Erik ^b   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^d CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; ANGIOPLASTY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 20344381834     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa051255     Document Type: Article

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