The role of redial reflux in the genesis of varicose veins

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 449-454

  Crotty, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOXIA; MICROCIRCULATION; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VARICOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; DISEASE MODEL; DOG; HEMODYNAMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NOREPINEPHRINE; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0029658170     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(96)90156-5     Document Type: Article

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