Is surgical thrombectomy to salvage failed autogenous arteriovenous fistulae worthwhile?

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1231-1233

  Palmer, Robert M ^a   Cull, David L ^a   Kalbaugh, Corey ^a   Carsten, Christopher G ^a   Taylor, Spence M ^a   Snyder, Bruce A ^a   York, John W ^a   Langan, Eugene M ^a   Blackhurst, Dawn ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FISTULA; FISTULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RADIOCEPHALIC FISTULA; STENOSIS; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN RUPTURE; VENOUS STENOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; EQUIPMENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIAL ARTERY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; RADIAL ARTERY; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33846919414     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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