Patient outcomes after knee replacement

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 356, Issue , 1998, Pages 93-110

  Heck, David A ^a   Robinson, Rebecca L ^b   Partridge, Cynthia M ^a   Lubitz, Robert M ^a   Freund, Deborah A ^a  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ^*

^b Long Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DEXTRAN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032418167     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199811000-00015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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