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Missed opportunities for the detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms : a retrospective study of eighteen patients presenting with a ruptured or acute symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm

A ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has a mortality of 80 percent. The majority of these cases present as medical emergencies, with 50 percent dying before they reach hospital. Twenty percent are not operated on because of an incorrect diagnosis and of the surviving 30 percent, there will be...

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Main Author: Maroney, Roy Thomas
Other Authors: Whittaker, D E
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Public Health and Family Medicine 2017
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