Treatment for peripheral arterial obstructive disease: An appraisal of the economic outcome of complications

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Flu, Hans ^a   van der Hage, Jos H ^a   Knippenberg, Bob ^a   Merkus, Jos W ^a   Hamming, Jaap F ^b   Lardenoye, Jan Willem H ^b  

^a HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UROKINASE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLISTER; BYPASS SURGERY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GANGRENE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSFUSION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEMATOMA; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 47249099327     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.03.029     Document Type: Article

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