Selective preservation of infected prosthetic arterial grafts: Analysis of a 20-year experience with 120 extracavitary-infected grafts

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 220, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 461-471

  Calligaro, Keith D ^a   Veith, Frank J ^b   Schwartz, Michael L ^b   Goldsmith, Jamie ^b   Savarese, Ronald P ^a   Dougherty, Matthew J ^a   DeLaurentis, Dominic A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY GRAFT; BLEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT PRESERVATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SEPSIS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0028149494     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199410000-00005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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