Atraumatic Acute Upper Limb Ischemia: A Series of 64 Patients in a Middle East Tertiary Vascular Center and Literature Review

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 181-197

  Sultan, Sherif ^a   Evoy, Denis ^b   Eldin, Ahmed Saad ^a   Eldeeb, Maged ^a   Elmehairy, Nabil ^a  

^a Trinity College ^*  (Egypt)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARM; ARTERIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EGYPT; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035005590     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440103500305     Document Type: Review

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