Statins: a sine qua non of the management of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms.

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Published in Int J Cardiol on July 18, 2013

Authors

Kosmas I Paraskevas1, Dimitri P Mikhailidis, Athanasios D Giannoukas

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Vascular Surgery, Larissa University Hospital, Larissa, Greece. Electronic address: paraskevask@hotmail.com.

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