Benefits of spiral CT scanner in the diagnosis of the abdominal aortic aneurysm in Viet Duc.
- Author:
Hoan Cong Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
abdominal aortic aneurysm
- MeSH:
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal;
Tomography, Emission-Computed
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;232(1):16-20
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The ultrasound Doppler and spiral CT scanner implemented in 19 patients with the abdominal aortic aneurysm have shown that the abdominal aortic aneurysm occurred most commonly in men over 60. The spiral CT scanner were frequently applied to exam before an operation because it overcome the limitations of ultrasound Doppler and angiography. In addition to, the spiral CT scanner had short time of procedure, can set up the three dimensional images with good quality which helped evaluating precisely the condition of arteries and determining the relation of the renal arterial aneurysm and discovering the renal stenosid and accessory renal stenosid as well as risks of rupture.
