Can the Main Trunk of Greater Saphenous Vein be Spared in Patients with Varicose Veins?

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 531-534

  Labropoulos, Nicos ^a   Belcaro, Gianni ^b,c   Giannoukas, Athanasios D ^b   Delis, Kostas ^b   Ashraf Mansour, M ^a   Kang, Steven S ^a   Nicolaides, Andrew N ^b   Baker, William H ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VARICOSIS; VEIN BYPASS;

EID: 0030771431     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857449703100504     Document Type: Article

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