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SUBMITTER: Kontopodis N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4770177 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kontopodis Nikolaos N Lioudaki Stella S Pantidis Dimitrios D Papadopoulos George G Georgakarakos Efstratios E Ioannou Christos V CV
World journal of radiology 20160201 2
Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a common pathology in the aging population of the developed world which carries a significant mortality in excess of 80% in case of rupture. Aneurysmal disease probably represents the only surgical condition in which size is such a critical determinant of the need for intervention and therefore the ability to accurately and reproducibly record aneurysm size and growth over time is of outmost importance. In the same time that imaging techniques may be limited by intra ...[more]