Audit of 149 consecutive carotid endarterectomies performed by a single surgeon in a district general hospital over a 12-year period

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 340-344

  Tan, L C ^a   Sutton, Graham L ^a   Taffinder, Nick J ^a,b   Perry, Michael ^a   Fail, Teresa ^a  

^a QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

Author keywords

Audit; Carotid endarterectomy; District general hospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029956914     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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