Patency of superficial femoral vein employed as a crossover femoral artery bypass conduit

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 746-750

  Meneghetti, Adam T ^a   MacDonald, P S ^a,c   Reid, J D S ^a   Sladen, J G ^a   Turnbull, R G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY BYPASS CONDUIT; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; INGUINAL REGION; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN GRAFT; ANASTOMOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036877506     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-001-0245-y     Document Type: Article

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