Radiographic monitoring of incidental abdominal aortic aneurysms: A retrospective population-based cohort study

Open Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 67-76

  van Walraven, Carl ^a,b,c   Wong, Jenna ^c   Morant, Kareem ^d   Jennings, Alison ^b   Austin, Peter C ^c   Jetty, Prasad ^a,b   Forster, Alan J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OBSERVATION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054860526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19112092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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