Reproducibility of abdominal aortic aneurysm diameter measurement and growth evaluation on axial and multiplanar computed tomography reformations

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 779-787

  Dugas, Alexandre ^a   Therasse, Éric ^a   Kauffmann, Claude ^a   Tang, An ^a   Elkouri, Stephane ^a   Nozza, Anna ^b   Giroux, Marie France ^a   Oliva, Vincent L ^a   Soulez, Gilles ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866613587     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-011-0259-y     Document Type: Article

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