Composite sequential grafts for femorocrural bypass reconstruction: Experience with a modified technique

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 772-778

  Mahmood, Asif ^a,b   Garnham, Andrew ^a,b   Sintler, Martin ^a,b   Smith, Simon R G ^a,b   Vohra, Rajiv K ^a,b   Simms, Malcolm H ^a,b  

^a Selly Oak Hospital ^*

^b SELLY OAK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LEG ARTERY; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHLEBITIS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIBIAL ARTERY; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN BYPASS; ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW UP; ISCHEMIA; LEG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0036782419     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.127527     Document Type: Article

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