Surgery for ischemic pain and raynaud's' phenomenon in scleroderma: A description of treatment protocol and evaluation of results

Microsurgery

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 75-79

  Tomaino, Matthew M ^a   Goitz, Robert J ^a   Medsger, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIAL ARTERY; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCLERODERMA; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHECTOMY; ULCER; ULNAR ARTERY;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIAL ARTERY; RAYNAUD DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SYMPATHECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 0034994658     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.1013     Document Type: Article

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