Endovascular repair compared with surveillance for patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1081-1087

  Ouriel, Kenneth ^a   Clair, Daniel G ^b   Kent, K Craig ^c   Zarins, Christopher K ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77952302425     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.10.113     Document Type: Article

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