Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 80-85 , January 2003

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection Does Not Adversely Affect Clinical Outcome of Lower Extremity Amputations

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 Presented at the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, Boston, MA, June 8, 2002.

PII: S0890-5096(06)60922-9

doi: 10.1007/s10016-001-0341-z

Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 80-85 , January 2003

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