Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 706-715.e1 , April 2007

Early complications and long-term outcome after open surgical treatment of popliteal artery aneurysms: Is exclusion with saphenous vein bypass still the gold standard?

Presented at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa, June 3, 2006.

Received 2 June 2006 ,Accepted 2 December 2006.

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 CME article

PII: S0741-5214(06)02235-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.12.011

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 706-715.e1 , April 2007

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