Chronic critical limb ischemia: Diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

American Family Physician

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1899-1908

  Santilli, Jamie D ^a   Santilli, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ARTHRITIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; HEMODYNAMICS; LIMB ISCHEMIA; PAIN; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WOUND;

AMPUTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; PULSE; RISK FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033118390     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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