The impact of gender on presentation, therapy, and mortality of abdominal aortic aneurysm in the United States, 2001-2004

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 891-899

  McPhee, James T ^a   Hill, Joshua S ^a   Eslami, Mohammad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247397089     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.01.043     Document Type: Article

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