Women with abdominal aortic aneurysms have more extensive aortic neck pathology

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 547-552

  Hultgren, Rebecka ^a,b   Vishnevskaya, Liya ^b   Wahlgren, Carl Magnus ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC NECK; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84879690738     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2012.05.025     Document Type: Article

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