Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 1107-1111 , May 2009

Implementation of an aortic screening program in clinical practice: Implications for the Screen for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Very Efficiently (SAAAVE) Act

Presented at the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Western Vascular Society, Napa, Calif, Sep 13-16, 2008.

Received 24 September 2008 ,Accepted 3 December 2008.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(08)02155-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.008

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 1107-1111 , May 2009

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