Outcome and cost analysis after femorocrural and femoropedal grafting for critical limb ischaemia

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-212

  Panayiotopoulos, Y P ^a   Tyrrell, M R ^a   Owen, S E ^a   Reidy, J F ^a   Taylor, P R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMOROTIBIAL BYPASS; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOOT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031016283     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800840219     Document Type: Article

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