European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery
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Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg · Jan 2011
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyComparison of surveillance versus aortic endografting for small aneurysm repair (CAESAR): results from a randomised trial.
Randomised trials have failed to demonstrate benefit from early surgical repair of small abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) compared with surveillance. This study aimed to compare results after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) or surveillance in AAA <5.5 cm. ⋯ This study is registered, NCT Identifier: NCT00118573.