Routine screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm during clinical transthoracic echocardiography in a Korean population

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1182-1187

  Oh, Se Hoon ^a   Chang, Sung A ^a   Jang, Shin Yi ^a   Park, Sung Ji ^a   Choi, Jin Oh ^a   Lee, Sang Chol ^a   Park, Seung Woo ^a   Oh, Jae K ^a,b   Kim, Duk Kyung ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm; screening; transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649660572     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01223.x     Document Type: Article

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