Has endovascular surgery reduced the number of open vascular operations performed by an established surgical practice?

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 514-519

  Sullivan, Timothy M ^a   Taylor, Spence M ^a   Blackhurst, Dawn W ^a   Langan III, Eugene M ^a   Cull, David L ^a   Carsten III, Christopher G ^a   Gray, Bruce H ^a   Snyder, Bruce A ^a   Youkey, Jerry R ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OBSERVATION; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY; STANDARD; SURGICAL TRAINING; TIBIAL ARTERY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0036733356     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.127341     Document Type: Article

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