Extensive Revascularization or Primary Amputation: Which Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia Should Not Be Revascularized?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 68-72

  Sottiurai, Vikrom ^a   White, John V ^a  

^a ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; HEALING; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MOBILIZATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AMPUTATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33947408017     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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