Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 663-670 , November 2007

Intermediate Follow-Up after Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Can We Forgo CT Scanning in Certain Patients?

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 Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Winter Meeting of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, Steamboat Springs, CO, January 26-28, 2007.

PII: S0890-5096(07)00287-7

doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.07.015

Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 663-670 , November 2007

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