Lessons learned about prevalence and growth rates of abdominal aortic aneurysms from a 25-year ultrasound population screening programme

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 68-74

  Oliver Williams, C ^a   Sweeting, M J ^a   Turton, G ^b   Parkin, D ^b   Cooper, D ^b   Rodd, C ^b   Thompson, S G ^a   Earnshaw, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTIC DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR SURGEON; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FOLLOW UP; MASS SCREENING; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85038599693     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.10715     Document Type: Article

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