Bypass versus Angioplasty in Severe Ischaemia of the Leg (BASIL) Trial: What Are Its Implications?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-274

  Bradbury, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VEIN BYPASS;

AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 71549162036     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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