Multicenter Ramdomized Prospective Trial Comparing a Pre-cuffed Polytetrafluoroethylene Graft to a Vein Cuffed Polytetrafluoroethylene Graft for Infragenicular Arterial Bypass

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-206

  Panneton, Jean M ^a   Hollier, Larry H ^b   Hofer, Jan M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ARTERY BYPASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT OCCLUSION; ILIAC ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PROSTHESIS; TIBIAL ARTERY; TIME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ASPIRIN; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; WARFARIN;

EID: 1942509393     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-004-0012-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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