Surveillance after endovascular aneurysm repair: Diagnostics, complications, and associated costs

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-427

  Prinssen, Monique ^a   Wixon, Christopher L ^b   Buskens, Erik ^a   Blankensteijn, Jan D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MEMORIAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3543036969     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-004-0036-3     Document Type: Article

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