High frequency of thoracic aneurysms in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-184

  Larsson, Emma ^a   Vishnevskaya, Lia ^a   Kalin, Bo ^a   Granath, Fredrik ^b   Swedenborg, Jesper ^a   Hultgren, Rebecka ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 78751654000     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181d96498     Document Type: Article

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