Abdominal aorta screening during transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 685-688

  Roshanali, Farideh ^a,b   Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Yousefnia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mohammadi, Azam ^a   Baharvand, Babak ^a  

^a Day General Hospital   (Iran)

^b No1 15th Tower ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SURGEON; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447635484     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00467.x     Document Type: Article

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