Medical Benefits of a Peripheral Vascular Screening Program

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-162

  Ballard, Jeffrey L ^a   Mazeroll, Renee ^a   Weitzman, Ryan ^a   Harward, Timothy R S ^a   Flanigan, D Preston ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STENT; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; ANKLE; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CALIFORNIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PILOT PROJECTS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 33847642901     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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