What Is the Evidence on Efficacy of Spinal Cord Stimulation in (Subgroups of) Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia?

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 355-363

  Klomp, H M ^a,b   Steyerberg, E W ^a   Habbema, J D F ^a   van Urk, H ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUFLOMEDIL; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; KETANSERIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN ULCER; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SKIN ULCER; SPINAL NERVES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 67349142571     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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