Surveillance after lower extremity arterial bypass

Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 376-383

  Bandyk, Dennis F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Bypass graft; Duplex ultrasound; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; LEG; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LEG; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 45549095237     PISSN: 15310035     EISSN: 15310027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1531003507310460     Document Type: Article

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