Technical modifications in endoscopic vein harvest techniques facilitate their use in lower extremity limb salvage procedures

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 549-553

  Jimenez, Juan Carlos ^a   Lawrence, Peter F ^a   Rigberg, David A ^a   Quinones Baldrich, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INCISION; LEG; LEG ARTERY; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNICAL AID; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TRAINING; VEIN; VEIN GRAFT; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ANEURYSM; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33847138542     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.10.050     Document Type: Article

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