RT Book, Section
A1 Reardon, Robert F.
A1 Clinton, Michelle E.
A1 Madore, Frank
A1 Cook, Thomas P.
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Mateer, James R.
A2 Reardon, Robert F.
A2 Joing, Scott A.
SR Print(0)
ID 57791596
T1 Chapter 9. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
T2 Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound, 3e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179215-8
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57791596
RD 2024/04/20
AB Aneurysm  of  the  abdominal  aorta  is  a  relatively  common  disease  in  patients  over  50  years  of  age.1–3  Rupture  of  an  abdominal  aortic  aneurysm  (AAA)  has  a  high  mortality  and  causes  as  many  as  30,000  deaths  per  year  in  the  United  States,  which  is  more  than  AIDS  or  prostate  cancer.4  It  is  one  of  the  least-known  killers  in  American  society.4