The role of venous reflux and calf muscle pump function in nonthrombotic chronic venous insufficiency correlation with severity of signs and symptoms

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 403-406

  Labropoulos, Nicos ^a,b   Giannoukas, Athanasios D ^a   Nicolaides, Andrew N ^a   Veller, Martin ^a   Leon, Miguel ^a   Volteas, Nicos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0029885016     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1996.01430160061011     Document Type: Article

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