Current management of acute leg ischaemia: Results of an audit by the Vascular Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1498-1503

  Campbell, W B ^a   Ridler, B M F ^a   Szymanska, T H ^b  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Countess of Chester Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; IRELAND; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031726314     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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