Racial differences in operation for peripheral vascular disease: Results of a population-based study

Vascular

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-31

  Brothers, T E ^a   Robison, J G ^a   Sutherland, S E ^b   Elliott, B M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; gender; race; vascular surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOUTH CAROLINA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030912835     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099700500106     Document Type: Article

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