Assisted Patency with Primary Stent Placement in Distal Anastomotic Stenoses of Lower Limb Bypass Grafts

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Cotroneo, Antonio Raffaele ^a   Iezzi, Roberto ^a   Quinto, Fabio ^a   Nessi, Franco ^c   Marano, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Policlinico di Bari   (Italy)

^c MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; STENT; ANASTOMOSIS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33947731023     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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