Should claudicants receive angioplasty or exercise training?

Vascular

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 463-470

  Price, J F ^a   Leng, G C ^a   Fowkes, F G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

angioplasty; claudication; critical ischaemia; exercise training; limb loss

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CLINICAL TRIALS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0031259864     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099700500507     Document Type: Review

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