Intraobserver and interobserver variability of 64-row computed tomography abdominal aortic aneurysm neck measurements

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-268

  Diehm, Nicolas ^a   Kickuth, Ralph ^a   Gahl, Brigitta ^a   Do, Dai Do ^a   Schmidli, Jürg ^a   Rattunde, Henning ^a   Baumgartner, Iris ^a   Dick, Florian ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846416189     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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