Occupation-related vascular disorders of the upper extremity: Two case reports

Angiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-114

  Aleksic, Marko ^a,b   Heckenkamp, Jörg ^a   Gawenda, Michael ^a   Brunkwall, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIFEDIPINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARM; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHENAR HAMMER SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIBRATION INDUCED WHITE FINGER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIFEDIPINE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VIBRATION;

EID: 33645295817     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970605700116     Document Type: Article

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