What is the clinical utility of a 6-month computed tomography in the follow-up of endovascular aneurysm repair patients?

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1181-1187

  Go, Michael R ^a   Barbato, Joel E ^a   Rhee, Robert Y ^a   Makaroun, Michel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEROMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44349193430     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.01.056     Document Type: Article

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