Multidetector CT angiography versus digital subtraction angiography for aortoiliac length measurements prior to endovascular AAA repair

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 527-534

  Diehm, Nicolas ^a   Herrmann, Peter ^a   Dinkel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Aneurysm morphology; Computed tomographic angiography; Digital subtraction angiography; Endovascular repair; Length measurement; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED ANGIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RENAL ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 7244254266     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/03-1172.1     Document Type: Article

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