Long-term clinical outcomes in patients diagnosed with severe digital ischemia

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue FEBRUARY, 2011, Pages

  Keo, Hong H ^a   Umer, Melika ^a   Baumgartner, Iris ^a   Willenberg, Torsten ^a   Gretener, Silvia B ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital artery occlusion; Epidemiology; Ischemia; Occupational exposure; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIGITAL ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FOLLOW UP; HAND DISEASE; HAND INJURY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHENAR HAMMER SYNDROME; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB PAIN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TROPHIC ULCER; ULCER HEALING; FINGER; HOSPITALIZATION; ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79955859870     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13159     Document Type: Article

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