Revision of failing lower extremity bypass grafts

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 126-130

  Dougherty, Matthew J ^a,b   Calligaro, Keith D ^a   DeLaurentis, Dominic A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 0032143930     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00167-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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