Bleeding into the intraluminal thrombus in abdominal aortic aneurysms is associated with rupture

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1108-1113

  Roy, Joy ^a,b   Labruto, Fausto ^b   Beckman, Mats O ^b   Danielson, Jesper ^c   Johansson, Gunnar ^a   Swedenborg, Jesper ^b  

^a ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Karolinska University Hospital ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55049096368     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.06.063     Document Type: Article

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