Is duplex surveillance of value after leg vein bypass grafting?

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-138

  Lindsay, Thomas F ^a,b   Dueck, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EUROPE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FEMOROTIBIAL BYPASS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; META ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANK SUM TEST; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33746465819     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1358863x06vm661xx     Document Type: Article

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