Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Using Non-imaging Hand-held Ultrasound Volume Scanner - A Pilot Study

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 615-619

  Vidakovic, R ^a   Schouten, O ^a   Feringa, H H H ^a   Dunkelgrun, M ^a   Karagiannis, S E ^a   Merks, E ^a   Bosch, J ^a   Bom, N ^a   Neskovic, A N ^b   Bax, J J ^c   Poldermans, D ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute   (Yugoslavia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Screening; Ultrasound; Volume

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLADDER CAPACITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAFF TRAINING;

AGED; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33750533414     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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