Outcome and quality of life in patients treated for abdominal aortic aneurysms: A single center experience

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 987-994

  Dick, Florian ^a   Grobéty, Véronique ^a   Immer, Franz F ^a   Do, Dai Do ^a   Savolainen, Hannu ^a   Carrel, Thierry P ^a   Schmidli, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43949109242     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9565-1     Document Type: Article

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