Changes in venous lumen size and shape do not affect the accuracy of volume flow measurements in healthy volunteers and patients with primary chronic venous insufficiency

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 522-526

  Lurie, Fedor ^a,b   Ogawa, Tomohiro ^a,b   Kistner, Robert L ^a,c   Eklof, Bo ^a,c  

^a Straub Foundation ^*

^b Straub Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VEIN DIAMETER; VOLUNTEER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY POSTURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMORAL VEIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0036514799     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.121565     Document Type: Article

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