The Use of Arm Veins for Infrainguinal Bypass in End-Stage Peripheral Vascular Disease

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1989, Pages 1078-1081

  Balshi, James D ^a   Cantelmo, Nancy L ^a   Menzoian, James O ^a   Logerfo, Frank W ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY DISEASE; BRACHIAL VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 0024430483     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1989.01410090088019     Document Type: Article

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