Quantitative assessment of superficial venous insufficiency using duplex ultrasound and air plethysmography

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 644-648

  Yamaki, Takashi ^a   Nozaki, Motohiro ^a   Sasaki, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0033941569     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2000.00025.x     Document Type: Article

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