Perioperative outcomes and amputation-free survival after lower extremity bypass surgery in California hospitals, 1996-1999, with follow-up through 2004

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Feinglass, Joe ^a   Sohn, Min Woong ^a,b   Rodriguez, Heron ^a   Martin, Gary J ^a   Pearce, William H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; GANGRENE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS;

EID: 70349334024     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.05.050     Document Type: Article

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