Long-term results of omental transplantation in chronic occlusive arterial disease (Buerger's disease) and retinal avascular diseases (retinitis pigmentosa)

International Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 174-183

  Agarwal, Virendra K ^a,b  

^a MGM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Sanjeevini Nursing Home   (India)

Author keywords

Blindness; Buerger's disease; Chronic occlusive arterial disease; Gangrene; Limb salvage; Macular degeneration; Omentopexy; Peripheral vascular disease; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BUERGER DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OMENTUM; RADIOGRAPHY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TIBIAL ARTERY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; OMENTUM; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 35648968610     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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