Primary Closure, Routine Patching, and Eversion Endarterectomy: What is the Current State of the Literature Supporting Use of These Techniques?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 226-235

  Byrne, John ^a   Feustel, Paul ^a   Darling III, R Clement ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACRON;

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DACRON VASCULAR PROSTHESIS; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATCH CLAMP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 36849019010     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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