Increased prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair compared with patients without hernia receiving aneurysm screening

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1184-1188

  Antoniou, George A ^a,b,c   Giannoukas, Athanasios D ^b   Georgiadis, George S ^a   Antoniou, Stavros A ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a   Prassopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Lazarides, Miltos K ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955680390     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.11.053     Document Type: Article

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