Use of arm veins for lower extremity arterial bypass - Results, anatomical features and technical considerations

South African Journal of Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 36-41

  Browning, Neil ^a   Zammit, Michael ^a   Rodriguez, Dirk ^a   Sauvage, Lester ^a   Loudenback, Dennis ^a   Raghavan, Arun ^a  

^a HOPE HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARM; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; HUMAN; LEG ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM; ARM; ARTERIES; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 0033923942     PISSN: 00382361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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