Surgical treatment of femoral artery infected false aneurysms in drug abusers

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1005-1010

  Georgiadis, George S ^a,b   Lazarides, Miltos K ^a   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drug abusers; Infected false aneurysms

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY LIGATION; CLAUDICATION; DEBRIDEMENT; EXCISION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB SALVAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POST TRAUMATIC FEMORAL ARTERY INFECTED FALSE ANEURYSM; PUBLICATION; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADDICTION; AMPUTATION; ANEURYSM; LIGATION; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AMPUTATION; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LIGATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33644876198     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03578.x     Document Type: Review

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