Explaining the decrease in mortality from abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 637-645

  Anjum, A ^a   Von Allmen, R ^a   Greenhalgh, R ^a   Powell, J T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SMOKING; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; WALES;

EID: 84857512336     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.8698     Document Type: Article

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