Factors affecting symptomatic vs asymptomatic vein graft stenoses in lower extremity bypass grafts

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 848-853

  Landry, Gregory J ^a,c   Liem, Timothy K ^a   Mitchell, Erica L ^a   Edwards, James M ^b   Moneta, Gregory L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LEG VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN OCCLUSION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 34548705550     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.9.848     Document Type: Article

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