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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 673483, 5 pages
doi:10.1100/2012/673483
Clinical Study

Analysis of Risk Factors for Amputation in 822 Cases with Acute Arterial Emboli

Ozgur Dag, Mehmet Ali Kaygın, and Bilgehan Erkut

Erzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, 25080 Erzurum, Turkey

Received 6 October 2011; Accepted 13 November 2011

Academic Editor: Kazem M. Azadzoi

Copyright © 2012 Ozgur Dag et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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