Assessing outcomes, costs, and benefits of emerging technology for minimally invasive saphenous vein in situ distal arterial bypasses

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 613-618

  Piano, Giancarlo ^a   Schwartz, Lewis B ^a   Foster, Lisa ^a   Bassiouny, Hisham S ^a   McKinsey, James F ^a   Rosenthal, David ^a,b   Gewertz, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BYPASS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031777003     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.133.6.613     Document Type: Article

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