Infrainguinal Atherectomy: A Retrospective Review of a Single-Center Experience

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 776-782

  Biskup, Nataliya I ^a   Ihnat, Daniel M ^a   Leon, Luis R ^b   Gruessner, Angelika C ^a   Mills, Joseph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CLAUDICATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFRAINGUINAL ATHERECTOMY; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL ARTERY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ATHERECTOMY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDARTERECTOMY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 55049127097     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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