Management of vascular graft infections with soft tissue flap coverage: Improving limb salvage rates - A veterans affairs experience

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 877-881

  Herrera, Fernando A ^a   Kohanzadeh, Som ^a   Nasseri, Yosef ^a   Kansal, Nikhil ^a   Owens, Eric L ^a   Bodor, Richard ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACRON; POLITEF; PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BYPASS SURGERY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; PSEUDOMONAS; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEPSIS; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE FLAP; VEIN GRAFT; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GROIN; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 70450239879     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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