Impact of calcification and intraluminal thrombus on the computed wall stresses of abdominal aortic aneurysm

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 928-935

  Li, Zhi Yong ^a,b   U King Im, Jean ^a   Tang, Tjun Y ^a   Soh, Edmund ^a   See, Teik Choon ^a   Gillard, Jonathan H ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALL STRESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42749095090     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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