Value of volume measurements in evaluating abdominal aortic aneurysms growth rate and need for surgical treatment

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1051-1056

  Kontopodis, Nikolaos ^a   Metaxa, Eleni ^b   Papaharilaou, Yannis ^b   Georgakarakos, Efstratios ^c   Tsetis, Dimitris ^a   Ioannou, Christos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

AAA diameter; AAA expansion; AAA volume; Intraluminal thrombus thickness; Intraluminal thrombus volume; Rupture risk

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EVALUATION STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THROMBUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84902290905     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2014.03.018     Document Type: Article

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