Seminars in Vascular Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 63-71 , June 2011

Brachial-Basilic Autogenous Access

  • Tze-Woei Tan, MD
    • ,
  • Alik Farber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Alik Farber, Section of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Boston University Medical Center, 88 East Newton Street, Collamore Building 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02119-2393

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doi: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2011.05.004

Seminars in Vascular Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 63-71 , June 2011

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