The natural history of duplex-detected stenosis after femoropopliteal endovascular therapy suggests questionable clinical utility of routine duplex surveillance

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 346-352

  Bui, Trung D ^a   Mills Sr , Joseph L ^a   Ihnat, Daniel M ^a   Gruessner, Angelika C ^a   Goshima, Kaoru R ^a   Hughes, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SYSTOLE; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASOUND; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE; VEIN GRAFT STENOSIS; VELOCITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; ARIZONA; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84856094455     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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