Cost efficacy of duplex surveillance and prophylactic angioplasty of arteriovenous ePTFE grafts

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 138-142

  Lumsden, Alan B ^a,b   MacDonald, M Julia ^a   Kikeri, Deepak ^a   Cotsonis, George A ^a   Harker, Laurence A ^a   Martin, Louis G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 5105 WMB Surgery Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 0031950857     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100169900130     Document Type: Article

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