European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 168-176 , August 2004

A Comparative Study of Aortic Wall Stress Using Finite Element Analysis for Ruptured and Non-ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

,Accepted 30 March 2004.

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☆ Abstract presented at: European Society for Vascular Surgery XVII Annual Meeting, September 2003, Dublin, Ireland.

PII: S1078-5884(04)00178-9

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2004.03.029

European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 168-176 , August 2004

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