Infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Time-trends during a 20-year period

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1682-1686

  Berge, Camilla ^a   Haug, Erik S ^a   Romundstad, Pål R ^b   Lange, Conrad ^a   Myhre, Hans O ^a,b  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATION DURATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NORWAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447294582     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9124-1     Document Type: Article

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