Clinical Staging of Acute Limb Ischemia as the Basis for Choice of Revascularization Method: When and How to Intervene

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-9

  Rutherford, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIMB ISCHEMIA; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; THROMBECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; PATIENT SELECTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 61949138742     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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