Dementia and amputation

Interventional Medicine and Applied Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 175-180

  Schuch, Vera ^a   Moysidis, Theodoros ^a   Weiland, Dorothea ^b   Santosa, Frans ^a   Krörer, Knut ^a  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM KREFELD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm amputation; DRG statistics; endovascular aortic repair; hip fracture; peripheral arterial disease; total hip replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871979599     PISSN: 20611617     EISSN: 20615094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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