Validation of a new standardized method to measure proximal aneurysm neck angulation

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 821-828

  van Keulen, Jasper W ^a   Moll, Frans L ^a   Tolenaar, Jip L ^a   Verhagen, Hence J M ^b   van Herwaarden, Joost A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA NECK ANGLE MEASUREMENT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77949897451     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.10.114     Document Type: Article

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