Predictors of wound complications following major amputation for critical limb ischemia

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1374-1382

  Hasanadka, Ravishankar ^a   McLafferty, Robert B ^a   Moore, Colleen J ^a   Hood, Douglas B ^a   Ramsey, Don E ^a   Hodgson, Kim J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 81155159773     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.04.048     Document Type: Article

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