Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm by means of transthoracic echocardiography;Screening del aneurisma de aorta abdominal mediante ecocardiografía transtorácica

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 395-400

  Gentille Lorente, Delicia Inés ^a   Salvadó Usach, Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ SANITÀRIA PERE VIRGILI IISPV   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Atherosclerosis; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SMOKING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955600667     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.recesp.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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