Randomized trial evidence supporting a strategy of thrombus removal for acute DVT

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 192-198

  Comerota, Anthony J ^a  

^a TOLEDO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; STREPTOKINASE;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEVER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTTHROMBOSIS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTICOAGULANTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; POSTTHROMBOTIC SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77956317145     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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