Knee dislocations with vascular injury: Outcomes in the Lower Extremity Assessment Project (LEAP) study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 855-858

  Patterson, Brendan M ^b   Agel, Julie ^a   Swiontkowski, Marc F ^a   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^c   Bosse, Michael J ^d   Kellam, James F ^e   Burgess, Andrew R ^e   Webb, Lawrence X ^e   Sanders, Roy W ^e   Jones, Alan L ^e   McAndrew, Mark P ^e   McCarthy, Melissa L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Knee dislocation; Lower extremity trauma; Sickness impact profile (SIP); Vascular injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE; KNEE DISLOCATION; KNEE INSTABILITY; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURGEON; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE DISLOCATION; LIMB SALVAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349079483     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31806915a7     Document Type: Article

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