Abdominal aortic aneurysm calcification: trying to identify a reliable semiquantitative method.

CONCLUSIONS: ACI is suggested as a fast and easy-to-use method of assessing AAC in AAA patients. Its use should be encouraged to study AAC in AAA over other semiquantitative methods, in research settings. PMID: 29430885 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29430885?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery - February 8, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Dias-Neto M, Neves E, Sousa-Nunes F, Henriques-Coelho T, Sampaio S Tags: J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) Source Type: research