Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 6 , Pages 1181-1187 , June 2008

What is the clinical utility of a 6-month computed tomography in the follow-up of endovascular aneurysm repair patients?

Presented at the 2007 Vascular Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa, June 6-10, 2007.

Received 5 June 2007 ,Accepted 29 January 2008.

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 Competition of interest: none.

 CME article

PII: S0741-5214(08)00194-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.01.056

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 6 , Pages 1181-1187 , June 2008

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