A National and Single Institutional Experience in the Contemporary Treatment of Acute Lower Extremity Ischemia

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 382-390

  Eliason, Jonathan L ^a   Wainess, Reid M ^a   Proctor, Mary C ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a   Cowan Jr , John A ^a   Upchurch Jr , Gilbert R ^a   Stanley, James C ^a   Henke, Peter K ^a,b   Mannick, John A ^c   Verrier, Edward D ^c   Isom, O Wayne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPARINIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANTICOAGULANTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141975782     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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