Ultrasound-determined diameter measurements are more accurate than axial computed tomography after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1381-1389

  Han, Sukgu M ^a   Patel, Kaushel ^b   Rowe, Vincent L ^a   Perese, Susana ^a   Bond, Aaron ^a   Weaver, Fred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77952196893     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.01.033     Document Type: Article

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