Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 125-133 , January 1993

A prospective study of the clinical outcome of femoral pseudoaneurysma and arteriovenous fistuals induced by arterial puncture

Presented at the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Chicago, Ill., June 8-9, 1992.

Received 12 June 1992 ,Accepted 7 August 1992.

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☆ Reprint requests: K. Craig Kent, MD, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215.

PII: 0741-5214(93)90016-F

doi: 10.1067/mva.1993.41707

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 125-133 , January 1993

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