A 14-year experience with 6 cm as a criterion for surgical treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm

Abstract

Repeated observation is preferable to surgical intervention until an aortic aneurysm measures 6 cm in diameter, expands by 1 cm per annum or causes symptoms. Presented as a poster to the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, San Diego, California, USA, June 1998