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Sagittale doorsnede CT-angiografie met een infrarenaal abdominaal aorta aneurysma over een lengte van 65,66 mm.
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The importance of preventive medicine is continuously getting more established. Although several countries have already cost-effectively implemented one-time ultrasound-based screening of 65-year-old men for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, this is not the case in Belgium. Considering the lack of data on epidemiology and cost-effectiveness in Belgium,...
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