Laser atherectomy for lower extremity revascularization: An adjunctive endovascular treatment option

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 268-274

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Bush, Ruth L ^b   Lin, Peter H ^b   Peden, Eric K ^b   Lumsden, Alan B ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BLOOD VESSEL PERFORATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEATH; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXCIMER LASER; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LASER SURGERY; LEG PAIN; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; TIBIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, LASER-ASSISTED; ATHERECTOMY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POPLITEAL ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33748993150     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538574406291796     Document Type: Article

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