Incidence of incisional hernias in patients operated on for aneurysm or occlusive disease

American Surgeon

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 550-552

  Liapis, Christos D ^a,b   Dimitroulis, Dimitrios A ^a   Kakisis, John D ^a   Nikolaou, Alexis N ^a   Skandalakis, Panagiotis ^a   Daskalopoulos, Marios ^a   Kostakis, Alkiviadis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 3142742564     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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