Endovascular aneurysm repair: State-of-art imaging techniques for preoperative planning and surveillance

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 423-438

  Truijers, M ^a   Resch, T ^b   Van Den Berg, J C ^c   Blankensteijn, J D ^d   Lonn I ^e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aneurysm, therapy; Diagnostic imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tomography; Ultrasonography; Vascular surgical procedures, trends; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STENT THROMBOSIS; SURGEON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 70450204612     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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