Validation of the Finnvasc Score in Infrainguinal Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty for Critical Lower Limb Ischemia

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 547-551

  Kechagias, Aristotelis ^a   Perälä, Jukka ^a   Ylönen, Kari ^a   Asim Mahar, Muhammad Ali ^a   Biancari, Fausto ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FINNVASC SCORE; FOOT; GANGRENE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFRAINGUINAL PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEROMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 46649115504     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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