Essentials of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair imaging: Preprocedural assessment

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2014, Pages W347-W357

  Picel, Andrew C ^a   Kansal, Nikhil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair; EVAR; Pretreatment imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY DIAMETER; CELIAC ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL RISK; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR ACCESS; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EQUIPMENT; EVAR; FEMALE; IMPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRETREATMENT IMAGING; PROSTHESIS; STENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR; EVAR; PRETREATMENT IMAGING;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS FITTING; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STENTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84910153068     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.11735     Document Type: Review

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