The influence of incidental abdominal aortic aneurysm monitoring on patient outcomes

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80054862467     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.05.045     Document Type: Article

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