Arterial reconstruction: Justified for patients with intermittent claudication?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1039-1042

  Fujioka, Kentaro ^a   Esato, Kensuke ^a   Zempo, Nobuya ^a   Katoh, Tomoe ^a   Fujimura, Yoshihiko ^a   Yoshimura, Koichi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; AORTA; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; INGUINAL CANAL; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PULSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031722495     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900513     Document Type: Article

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