Ultrasonographic screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Iranian candidates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-388

  Shirani, Shapour ^a   Shakiba, Madjid ^b   Soleymanzadeh, Maryam ^a   Bakhshandeh, Hooman ^c   Esfandbod, Maryam ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 70349912198     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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