Aortic prosthetic infection: 50 patients treated by radical or local surgery

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 654-658

  Hannon, R J ^a   Wolfe, J H N ^a   Mansfield, A O ^a,b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMPUTATION; AORTIC DISEASES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029906402     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800830522     Document Type: Article

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