Wound Complications After Infrainguinal Bypass: Classification, Predisposing Factors, and Management

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 859-862

  Johnson, Joel A ^a   Cogbill, Thomas H ^a   Strutt, Pamela J ^a   Gundersen, Adolf L ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BYPASS SURGERY; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; TIBIAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NECROSIS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0023751392     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1988.01400310073012     Document Type: Article

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