Effects of acupressure on lower limb blood flow for the treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive diseases

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-108

  Li, Xiangfeng ^a   Hirokawa, Masayuki ^a   Inoue, Yoshinori ^a   Sugano, Norihide ^a   Qian, Shuixian ^a   Iwai, Takehisa ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupressure; Blood flow; Peripheral arterial occlusive disease; Transcutaneous oximetry (tcPO2)

Indexed keywords

ACUPRESSURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOOT; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; STIMULATION; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORAX; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPRESSURE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846489631     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3347-x     Document Type: Article

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