Treatment of Primary Venous Insufficiency by Endovenous Saphenous Vein Obliteration

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 201-214

  Chandler, James G ^a   Pichot, Olivier ^b   Sessa, Carmine ^b   Schuller Petrovicć, Sanja ^c   Kabnick, Lowell S ^d   Bergan, John J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SKIN INJURY; THERMAL INJURY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0034067439     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440003400303     Document Type: Article

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