Fifteen years of experience in treating 2177 episodes of foot and leg lesions with the circulator boot - Results of treatments with the circulator boot

Angiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Dillon, Richard S ^a,b  

^a BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Bryn Mawr Medical Building N ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; END DIASTOLIC PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION BOOT; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; NEUROPATHY; ORTHOPEDIC SHOE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RELAPSE; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR SURGEON; VASCULAR SURGERY; VENOUS STASIS; WALKING; WOUND HEALING;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

EID: 0030994176     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319797048005s03     Document Type: Article

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