Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 713-718 , November 2007

Redo Pedal Bypass Surgery after Pedal Graft Failure: Gain or Gadget?

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 Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Winter Meeting of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, Steamboat Springs, CO, January 26-28, 2007.

PII: S0890-5096(07)00281-6

doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.07.010

Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 21, Issue 6 , Pages 713-718 , November 2007