Radiation burden of patients undergoing endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 283-287

  Kalef Ezra, John A ^a   Karavasilis, Stratos ^a   Ziogas, Dimosthenis ^a   Dristiliaris, Dimitris ^a   Michalis, Lampros K ^a   Matsagas, Miltiadis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; DOSIMETRY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN INJURY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BODY BURDEN; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59649090013     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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