Beyond Fusiform and Saccular: A Novel Quantitative Tortuosity Index May Help Classify Aneurysm Shape and Predict Aneurysm Rupture Potential

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-97

  Pappu, Suguna ^a   Dardik, Alan ^a   Tagare, Hemant ^a   Gusberg, Richard J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SPINDLE CELL; THROMBUS;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37749020702     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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