Analysis of Expansion Patterns in 4-4.9 cm Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-44

  Vega de Ceniga M ^a   Gomez R ^a   Estallo, L ^a   de la Fuente, N ^a   Viviens, B ^a   Barba, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE GALDAKAO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFE TABLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37849011130     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.07.036     Document Type: Article

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