Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Make Screening Great Again

Angiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 205-211

  Takagi, Hisato ^a   Ando, Tomo ^b   Umemoto, Takuya ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm; meta analysis; mortality; screening

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; GENDER; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); AGE; AGED; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; SEX FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT SELECTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85041556254     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: 19401574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319717693107     Document Type: Article

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