Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Pages 960-966 , May 2008

Infrainguinal vein graft stenosis: Cutting balloon angioplasty as the first-line treatment of choice

Presented at the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Western Vascular Society, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, Sep 8-11, 2007.

Received 21 September 2007 ,Accepted 13 December 2007.

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 Competition of interest: none.

 CME article

PII: S0741-5214(07)02054-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.12.035

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Pages 960-966 , May 2008

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