Treatment of infected pseudoaneurysm in drug abusers: Ligation or reconstruction?

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-52

  Salehian, Mohammad Taghi ^a   Shahid, Negin ^a   Mohseni, Mahshid ^a   Ghodoosi, Iraj ^a   Marashi, Seyed Ali ^a   Fazel, Iraj ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drug abusers; Ligation; Pseudoaneurysm

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; IRAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; HUMANS; IRAN; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 31144470048     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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