Subintimal Angioplasty as the First-Choice Revascularization Technique for Infrainguinal Arterial Occlusions in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 819-828

  Tartari, S ^a   Zattoni, L ^b   Rizzati, R ^a   Aliberti, C ^a   Capello, K ^c   Sacco, A ^b   Mollo, F ^b   Benea, G ^a  

^a Epidemiology Unit   (Italy)

^b Az USL di Rovigo   (Italy)

^c Ist Zooprofilattico delle Venezie   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35548942768     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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