Subfascial Endoscopic Perforator Vein Surgery in Patients with Post-Thrombotic Venous Insufficiency - Is It Justified?

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-50

  Kalra, Manju ^a   Gloviczki, Peter ^a   Noel, Audra A ^a   Rooke, Thom W ^b   Lewis, Bradley D ^c   Jenkins, Greg D ^c   Canton, Linda G ^c   Panneton, Jean M ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Gonda Vascular Center   (United States)

^c Division of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; ULCER HEALING; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN STRIPPING; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SUBFASCIAL ENDOSCOPIC PERFORATOR VEIN SURGERY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN SURGERY; VENOUS REFLUX; CATHETER ABLATION; LIFE TABLE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TIME; VARICOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VARICOSE ULCER; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036168237     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440203600108     Document Type: Article

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