St George's vascular institute protocol: An accurate and reproducible methodology to enable comprehensive characterization of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm morphology in clinical and research applications

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 400-414

  Ghatwary, Tamer ^a,b   Karthikesalingam, Alan ^a   Patterson, Benjamin ^a   Hinchliffe, Robert ^a   Morgan, Robert ^a   Loftus, Ian ^a   Salem, Ayman ^b   Thompson, Matt M ^a   Holt, Peter J ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Access vessels; Aneurysm sac; Aortic neck; Calcification; Common iliac arteries; Computed tomographic angiography; Dimensions; Endovascular aneurysm repair; Morphological assessment; Observer variability; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84864537042     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/11-3731MR.1     Document Type: Article

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