Reconsidering gender relative to risk of rupture in the contemporary management of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1429-1436

  Skibba, Afshin A ^a   Evans, James R ^a   Hopkins, Steven P ^a   Yoon, H Richard ^a   Katras, Tony ^a   Kalbfleisch, John H ^a   Rush, Daniel S ^a  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SMOKING; ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84948710483     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2015.07.079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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