Duplex ultrasound surveillance can be worthwhile after arterial intervention

Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 354-359

  Bandyk, Dennis F ^a,b   Chauvapun, Joe P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplex ultrasound; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 45549083605     PISSN: 15310035     EISSN: 15310027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1531003507311681     Document Type: Article

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