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Decreasing incidence of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm already before start of screening

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has led to a decrease in ruptured AAA (rAAA) incidence. METHOD: The Malmö population was evaluated regarding the incidence of rAAA and elective AAA surgery 4 years before and after start of AAA-sc...

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Autores principales: Otterhag, Sofia Nessvi, Gottsäter, Anders, Lindblad, Bengt, Acosta, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26888090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-016-0215-5