Quantitative venous severity scoring using the venous arterial flow index by duplex sonography

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 937-941

  Kahle, Birgit ^a,b   Hennies, Felix ^a   Hummel, Steffen ^a   Petzoldt, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTHROMBOSIS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCORING SYSTEM; VARICOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0036801497     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2002.02073.x     Document Type: Article

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